“An Ocean at the End of the Road” reshapes modern fantasy in motion—dynamic, frightening, and elegiac: pure as a dream, fragile as a butterfly’s wing, dangerous as a knife from the darkness, in the hands of a master storyteller like Neil Gaiman.
For our hero, it all began forty years ago, when a lodger stole their family car and ended his own life in it—rousing ancient forces that would have been better left undisturbed. Dark creatures fled from the afterworld, and the hero will need literally everything to remain alive: primal terror and a constant threat hang over his family, coming from powers joined together to destroy him.
His only protection is three women living on a farm at the end of the road. The youngest swears that their pond for ducks is in fact an ocean, while the oldest remembers how the Moon was born.