THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving; terrifying and elegiac - as pure as a dream; as delicate as a butterfly's wing; as dangerous as a knife in the dark - from storytelling genius Neil Gaiman. It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it; stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond this world are on the loose; and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here; and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defence is three women; on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.