Robert Aickman, The Wine-Dark Sea

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"Enchanted islands are hard to understand,' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you can never be sure where the enchantment begins and where it ends."

Robert Aickman, The Wine-Dark Sea

"No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled."

Robert Aickman, The Wine-Dark Sea