The goal was to create the same spooky and foreboding atmosphere on The Wine-Dark Sea. Lovecraft, others by the Hellboy comic series. Some of the songs were apparently inspired by the horror stories of Robert Aickman and H.P. Representative tracks are Wormwood Grange, The Hopeless Distance and Ringing the Changes. The arrangement and the production, done in Norway by Anders Møller who has also worked with Ulver, appear somewhat old fashioned, think seventies rock, but, according to the press info, this is exactly the sound the band wanted. Echo on the vocals is almost a constant, adding a bit of grandeur. The tracks are very melodic, often mellow, the singing is clean. The sound is an unchallenging mixture between Ozric Tentacles and desert rock, or psychedelia and stoner, if you like that better. Precisely because it lacks an edge one can easily listen to The Wine-Dark Sea. It’s not exceptionally good, it’s certainly not bad, it’s OK, but to be really good it lacks an edge and a kick. The Wine-Dark Sea by London’s The Osiris Club is such an album. It’s not so easy to write about an album that’s somewhere in the middle. It’s also easy to write about an album that’s really bad. a contemporary master of the genre.It’s easy to write about an album that’s really good. As Peter Straub notes in his introduction ‘Aickman’s originality was rooted in need – he had to write these stories, and that is why they are worth reading and rereading’. For fans of the horror genre Robert Aickman is a must read.

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 protagonists’ fears and desires, at once illogical and terrifying, culminate in a disturbing yet enigmatic ending. 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. First published in the USA in 1988 and Peter Straub called Robert Aickman ‘this century’s most profound writer of what we call horror stories’. Peter Straub called Robert Aickman ‘this century’s most profound writer of what we call horror stories’.

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