Peter Straub called Robert Aickman \'this century\'s most profound writer of what we call horror stories\'.
First published in the USA in 1988 and in the UK in 1990 The Wine-Dark Sea contains eight stories that will leave the reader unsettled as the protagonis.
His characters are ordinary people that are gradually drawn into the darker recesses of their own minds.
Aickman\'s \'strange stories\' (his preferred term for them) are a subtle exploration of psychological displacement and paranoia.
Peter Straub called Robert Aickman \'this century\'s most profound writer of what we call horror stories\'