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OK people, a single silver lining to my lousy sick day: I finished reading Titus Groan. Do I roll right into Gormenghast? Or should I pause for a little literary sherbet between courses of Mervyn Peake?
I'm only going to leave this up for an hour because I'm impatient.
Started reading Gormenghast trilogy - the writing is luxurious: The thin bands of moted light edging their way through the shutters barred his dark head with the brilliance of the outer world.
Just… wow.
When I mentioned outlandish metaphor, I mean this kind of thing. Sentences that take you in gloriously unexpected directions even in gratuitous asides
#books #metaphor #writing #Gormenghast #MervynPeake #literature
The baleful mood extends, of course, to the landscape around the castle:
"Ahead lay Gormenghast Mountain in all its permanence, a sinister thing as though drawn out of the earth by sorcery as a curse on all who viewed it."
Smiles don't come easily to the people of Gormenghast
#books #reading #Gothic #literature #fantasy #fiction #Gormenghast
Gormenghast Book 1: Titus Groan
It's a book filled with fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, and miracles!
https://chasingdings.com/2025/10/31/gormenghast-book-1-titus-groan/
10 Fantasy Books With Beautiful Prose That Reads Like Poetry
These fantasy authors could hang with the finest mead hall bards of old.
https://www.themarysue.com/10-fantasy-books-with-beautiful-prose-that-reads-like-poetry/
#Books #BloodMeridian #fantasy #fantasybooks #Gormenghast
@indieauthors
Not Gormenghast
https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/not-gormenghast-justin-farrimond.html
This is no flight of fancy in stone, no Gormenghast or literary folly, this chapel of ease exists because of single minded determination.
A kirk by a loch, but do you know where?
#PhotoOfTheDay #Church #Photography #Art #InteriorDesign #History #Heritage #Gormenghast #Stonemasonry #Arcane #Esoteric #ArtPrint
Reading #gormenghast and I am obsessed with the absolute unit that is Swelter
I don’t think I ever finished all of the books; it just ground me down! 😔
Mervyn Peake - Gormenghast : un voyage déroutant et riche d’impressions nouvelles.
This week's #NewBooks at the library: a beautiful birthday gift: #Gormenghast in a lovely rendition from the #FolioSociety with illustrations by @#DaveMcKean! #Books #Bookstodon
Apparently it is #MadHatterDay , so a good excuse to remind folks that Gormenghast creator Mervyn Peake also did some splendid Alice in Wonderland illustrations
#books #livres #AliceInWonderland #MadHatter #MervynPeake #Illustrator #illustration #LewisCarroll #fantasy #Gormenghast #bookstodon
“His face remained like a mask, but deep down in his stomach he grinned.” #gormenghast
magnificent, utterly magnificent imagery
Finished Titus Groan. With its babbling, imbecile nobles in thrall to absurd ritual, I’m finding Peake’s #Gormenghast a grotesque gothic P. G. Wodehouse nightmare; a slow and relentlessly bleak “Psmith in the House of Usher.”
An experience, but not one I’m sure I want 600 pages more of. Does it get better in the next volumes? Spoilers welcome.
OMG. Wenn ihr unbedingt zusammenlegen wollt, um mir die #DaveMcKean #FolioSociety-Ausgabe von #MervynPeake|s »Titus«-Bücher (auch bekannt als »#Gormenghast«) zu schenken, will ich Euch nicht abhalten.
Hab Ende März Geburtstag.
Retreated to nearby cafe to escape anti-social swine upstairs, who is alternating between periods of peace then blasting music, then back to quiet. Treating self to very chilled berry drink and read
Today's travelling companions: Mervyn Peake, with the god-like John Coltrane playing Crescent on my headphones.
Finding my revisit to Gormenghast & its stultifying rituals particularly interesting in light of our own recent royal ceremonial nonsense.
#books #AmReading #livres #Gormenghast #TitusGroan #MervynPeake
Lining up our next weekend rewatch, with an episode a week. Next is the #BBC version of #Gormenghast from 2000. I’ve been keen to rewatch this for a while. And while I know #NeilGaiman is developing a new version I’d like to see this one again now. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0197154/ #MervynPeake #Television #00sTV #Fantasy #Horror #Weird #JonathanRhysMeyers #TVadaptations #books #TV
“There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.” ― Mervyn Peake, The Gormenghast Novels
There are many #books that I like. I admire a few of them. But #Gormenghast #novels always have a special place. Do you also have such books?
I am (slowly) reading (savouring) the #Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn #Peake, whose richness of imagination & language is astonishing. So dear reader, where does one finds such immense creativity in #mathematics ?
Experimenting with AI art for my fanfic. Here we have Gormenghast castle and the ancient Saxon wizard who's been holed up in it for over a thousand years.
(Fanfic available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-launch-73463520. It's not really Gormenghast fanfic -- they're more of a cameo before the real Harry Potter / Oz crossover action begins. :) )
#AIart #fanfiction #Gormenghast #HarryPotter #Oz #Patreon #fantasyart
@kekw Are you a collector? I’ve been accumulating firsts for decades (but still have a long way to go). My best find sorta lately was the #Gormenghast slip-case (which I didn’t know existed). #LordoftheRings #BallantineAdultFantasy #VintagePaperbacks
The peculiar pictures of Mervyn Peake, complete with an #EricSatie soundtrack. I know his drawings from the #Gormenghast trilogy, which are surely the finest Gothic fantasy novels ever written. I also have Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass with his illustrations.
#Drawing #MervynPeake
Ever since I first read it many years ago, a part of me has lived in #Gormenghast.
