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Gormenghast Series

This series delves into a decaying, eccentric castle and its inhabitants through the eyes of a young heir. Immerse yourself in a world of absurd rituals, intricate relationships, and constant power struggles. It's a gothic coming-of-age tale set within a labyrinthine world of decadence and secrets. The compelling characters and unique atmosphere pull you into the unsettling lives within this isolated domain.

Boy in Darkness
The Gormenghast trilogy
Titus Awakes
Titus Alone
Titus Groan

Recommended Reading Order

  1. 1

    Titus Groan

    • 506 pages
    • 18 hours of reading
    4.0(545)Add rating

    Stranger than fiction, larger than life, full of shades and echoes, Titus Groan is not merely one of the most brilliantly sustained flights of the imagination in modern English fiction, it is also a sustained piece of deadly irony. The characters are weird; the setting fantastic; everything about Mervyn Peake's masterpiece seems eccentric but for the stringent sense of reality which always seeps through the farcical, frightening antics in the mad castle of Gormenghast.

    Titus Groan
  2. 3

    Titus Alone

    • 272 pages
    • 10 hours of reading
    3.4(176)Add rating

    Titus, almost 20, flees oppressive Castle Rituals. Lost in a sandstorm, helped by Muzzlehatch owner of traveling zoo and his ex-lover Juno, stranded in big city, arrested for vagrancy, he longs for home. Nobody has heard of Gormenghast, few believe. Titus wants to prove it is real.

    Titus Alone
  3. 4

    Titus Awakes

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    In Titus Awakes the 77th Earl of Groan leaves the crumbling castle of Gormenghast and finds the larger world even stranger than his birthplace. Using notes and the fragments he left behind, his wife, the painter and writer Maeve Gilmore, has created a richly imagined sequel that fans of The Gormenghast Trilogy will delight in.

    Titus Awakes

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  • The Gormenghast trilogy

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    Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is lord and heir. Titus is expected to rule this gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons, and his eccentric and wayward subjects, according to strict age-old rituals, but things are changing in the castle. Titus must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder as well as his own longing for a life beyond the castle walls.

    The Gormenghast trilogy