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Writing Gormenghast by Sebastian Peake - Mervyn Peake

Arundel Castle looms magnificently above the flat, watery plain, visible on either side of the meandering Arun river below.

Gormenghast (novel) - Wikipedia

Gormenghast /ˈɡɔːmənˌɡɑːst/ is a fantasy novel by British writer Mervyn Peake, the second in his Gormenghast series. It is the story of Titus Groan, ...

The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake - Goodreads

Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast ...

The Call is Coming from Inside the Gormenghast - DU Writing Center

Mervyn Peake's 1950s fantasy series includes: Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone. The first two novels follow the eccentric figures of a spatially ...

Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake : r/TrueLit - Reddit

A great example of this would be American Gods by Neil Gaiman. My other suggestions for good 'literary' fantasy are: Rumo by Walter Moers, The ...

What makes Gormenghast a masterpiece? - The Guardian

Is Peake perhaps one of those influential figures: the writers' writer? I once asked the late Sebastian Peake, eldest son of Mervyn, how he ...

Gormenghastly - The Paris Review

I first encountered Mervyn Peake, as most readers do, through his baroque Gormenghast trilogy. At the time, I was stuck in the purgatorial ...

Peake's Prose by K. L. Oberst - Quote Lady's

This month I would like to talk about a neglected masterpiece, The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake, specifically the first book, Titus Groan. First ...

THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY by Mervyn Peake

His GORMENGHAST trilogy combines fantastic courtly antics with ... Writing Community in Your Inbox. Stay up to date on upcoming events ...

Gormenghast and the Great Tradition - Bondwine Books

Sebastian Peake, the author's son, has said that his father intended Gormenghast to resemble the ritualistic and encysted society within the ...

Writerly Recklessness #26: Peake Writing Advice | P J King

We don't need plot twists or shocking character revelations, because Gormenghast and her inhabitants are twisted and shocking enough as it is.

Mervyn Peake: How to Build a Castle in the Air - Mark McGuinness

For many of you, the author of the Gormenghast novels will need no introduction. But a surprising number of literature lovers have never heard ...

THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY by Mervyn Peake

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Horny Goth Novel Craft Study Part 1: TITUS GROAN (Gormenghast ...

About a month ago I said I wanted to learn how to write a horny goth novel, so I'm reading a bunch of books to get into that mood Here's a ...

Why You Should Read Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake - YouTube

gormenghast #mervynpeake #fantasy #titusgroan A book review of/ introduction to Mervyn Peake's GORMENGHAST (The Overlook Press, 2020), ...

The SF Site Feature: Gormenghast

Steerpike's talent for practical jokes came from Peake's own love of them. According to Sebastian Peake his father would take a professional tape measure and ...

Gormenghast (series) - Wikipedia

Gormenghast is a fantasy series by British author Mervyn Peake, about the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying, Gothic structure.

Growing up with Gormenghast | Arts and humanities - The Guardian

Fabian Peake will be discussing his father's illustrations of Alice in Wonderland with Will Self as part of the Imagine festival of writing ...

Memories of Mervyn Peake | The Letterpress Project

Anthony Burgess, who was a great champion of the Gormenghast books ... What most surprised me about the book was how unhappy Sebastian Peake ...

Sebastian Peake | Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings

Today, while stumbling across some literary blogs in a random kind of way, I learned that Sebastian Peake, son of Mervyn, died suddenly in ...