Nothing to Do With Anything

but Marjorie Bowen’s “The Sign-Painter and the Crystal Fishes” is the oddest early-20th-century weird tale I’ve ever read. I can’t even compare it to Aickman, because it’s not quite as creepy — more gothic/romantic. Really the best way I can describe it is “like coming across the last episode of a six-part miniseries, that no one else you talk to afterwards seems to have seen or heard of.”

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bowen/marjorie/sign-painter/