Gormenghast Series by Mervyn Peake, Rupert Degas, David Louis Edelman, Maeve Gilmore

3.82 · 145 ratings
  • Titus Groan (Gormenghast #1)
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    Titus Groan (Gormenghast #1)

    Mervyn Peake, Rupert Degas

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings · published 1946

    Starts with the birth and ends with the first birthday celebrations of the heir to the grand, tradition-bound castle of Gormenghast. A grand miasma of doom and foreboding weaves over the sterile rituals of the castle. Villainous Steerpike seeks to exploit the gaps between the formal rituals and the emotional needs of the ruling family for his own profit.

  • The Gormenghast Novels (Gormenghast #1-3)
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    The Gormenghast Novels (Gormenghast #1-3)

    Mervyn Peake

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings · published 1959

    A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and a dazzling array of bizarre creatures inhabit the magical world of the Gormenghast novels which, along with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, reign as one of the undisputed fantasy classics of all time... more

  • Gormenghast (Gormenghast #2)
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    Gormenghast (Gormenghast #2)

    Mervyn Peake

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings · published 1950

    Titus Groan is seven years old. Lord and heir to the crumbling castle Gormenghast. A gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, and death... more

  • Titus Alone (Gormenghast #3)
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    Titus Alone (Gormenghast #3)

    Mervyn Peake, David Louis Edelman

    Rated: 3.45 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings · published 1959

    The final book in the Gormenghast trilogy. “Mervyn Peake is the master of the macbre and a traveller through the deeper and darker chasms of the imagination.” – The TimesAs the novel opens, Titus, lord of Castle Gormenghast, has abdicated his throne. Born and brought to the edge of manhood in the huge, rotting castle, Titus rebels against the age-old ritual of which he is both lord and prisoner and rushes headlong into the world... more

  • Titus Awakes: The Lost Book of Gormenghast (Gormenghast #4)
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    Titus Awakes: The Lost Book of Gormenghast (Gormenghast #4)

    Maeve Gilmore, Mervyn Peake

    Rated: 3.21 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings · published 2011

    Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels are widely acknowledged to be a classic work of high fantasy, on a par with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. In the Gormenghast novels, Peake created the vividly detailed world - at once gothic and surreal - of Castle Gormenghast, ruled by the noble family of Groan, whose heir is bound by the house's ancient rules and rituals. When Peake died in 1968, he left behind a few tantalizing pages of a fourth book in the series... more

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