can Mervyn Peake's weird fantasy ever work on screen?
When we write we create images in the mind of the reader, 'phantoms' of what might be real but isn't; indeed, even non-fiction is always a construct which, ...
Delayed Reactions: Titus Groan - Speculative Chic
Dreamlike and macabre, Peake's extraordinary novel is one of the most astonishing and fantastic works in modern fiction.
Review: Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake (Book 1, Gormenghast)
Many critics believe Titus Groan to be a truly original piece of fantasy work, far from Tolkienesque the work is driven by truly remarkable ...
Top Books of 2021 + Final Reads - SUNBEAMSJESS
... Peake (pretty much everyone that has ever written weird and wonderful fiction since it seems). In this book, following on from Titus Groan ...
Neil Gaiman: I left my heart in Gormenghast - The Telegraph
... Peake's weird world – and why the books should ... To begin with and always, the most important thing is that Mervyn Peake was an artist.
Three great British fantasists: Lewis Carroll, Mervyn Peake, JRR ...
So what can fantasy do that realism can't? Dodgson's Alice books were the ... Please note that while the screen adaptations of Peake and Tolkien are ...
Kick-About #57 Mervyn Peake | Judy Watson's Endpapers
Peake was the author and illustrator of the Gormenghast series which has taken on cult status since the publication of the first book Titus ...
While often described as fantasy, there are no witches, dragons or magical spells here, nothing supernatural or other-worldly at all. We perhaps ...
Interview: THE RADIO TIMES (1984) - Sting
Police man's Peake - 'Weird and wonderful' is how superstar Sting describes the novels of Mervyn Peake. The cult writer's most famous fan ...
Mervyn Peake | Military Wiki - Fandom
Peake never returned to China but it has been noted that Chinese influences can be detected in his works, not least in the castle of Gormenghast itself ...
Updates: Recent Fantasy Acquisitions No. I (Hoban + Peake + ...
Something different! I have always had a soft sport for fantasy (mostly the non-Tolkein ripoff type) à la Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan (1946), ...
Naturally no book can be composed entirely of certainties, but nevertheless the sort of fiction available to me as a child offered a fair amount ...
Gormenghast (TV Mini Series 2000) - News - IMDb
Oscar winning screenwriter/producer Akiva Goldsman ("A Beautiful Mind") and Neil Gaiman ("American Gods") will adapt creator Mervyn Peake's 5 "Gormenghast" ...
A well-written story can change the world, if only in a reader's mind
To authors Alan Moore and Susanna Clarke, fantasy enables us to say what we can't easily elucidate in the real world. A well-written story ...
Mervyn Peake Archives - Galactic Journey
As a Peake fan I'm thrilled by the news, and hoping that the revived Titus Alone will be something more in the style of the first two Gormenghast novels. The ...
Mervyn Peake and the Queering of Sark - The City of Lost Books
There is never any question that he will ... Certainly, much of the work is decidedly clever and none could be described as commonplace' (p.
Welcome to the world of Gormenghast, the classic fantasy series from the imagination of Mervyn Peake ... will not then work. These cookies ...
Mervyn Peake: A curious stillness a study by antolin gibson
Mervyn Peake occupies a unique place in fantasy: the essence of his work is stillness. Perhaps his only counterpart in Science Fiction is Cordwainer Smith (with ...
... work of Mervyn Peake. My brief prior exposure to his famous *Gormenghast* trilogy gave me the sense that his work was more grotesque than weird, and that it ...
Gormenghast and the Great Tradition - Bondwine Books
Why in the world does anyone consider the Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake to be fantasy? ... Peake's satire depicts a place where nothing ever ...