Here 'a boy' (Titus, presumably) escapes the castle and wishes he hadn't. 'Boy in Darkness' (1956) - An Interquel novella set between the first two books but does not directly reference them.Steerpike likewise, continues his ascent and lust for power in parallel to Titus. Gormenghast (1950) - The second novel more or less continues where Titus Groan leaves off, showing the Earl as a young man bored with the life of the castle, his school lessons and fascinated with an androgynous creature who lives in the wild.Steerpike starts as an underling to Chef Abiatha Swelter but after getting lost in the castle, embarks on picaresque adventures that raise his profile. Titus Groan (1946) - The first novel introduces the Gormenghast castle, environs, and the plots concern the changes brought in the staid world of the court of the Earl of Groan with the birth of Titus Groan, and the arrival of Steerpike.The castle/city's other inhabitants include the Magnificent Bastard Nietzsche Wannabe terrorist Steerpike, Titus's sister Fuchsia, the good Dr Prunesquallor, chef Abiatha Swelter, Titus's gloomy father Sepulchrave, and Titus's mother Gertrude, the original Crazy Cat Lady. He dreads the long life before him, a life of ruling a single building, never leaving the moth-eaten, rusted-shut, claustrophobic, crumbling halls of pointless, decaying ritual. The books, more accurately called the Titus trilogy, concern the titular Titus Groan, the 77th Earl of Groan. The novels revolve around a series of grotesque and idiosyncratic characters who live inside a huge castle with surrounding huts which appears to be cut off from the rest of the world. The Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake are three fantasy novels which take place in a Constructed World notable for eschewing the supernatural and the menagerie of beings associated with Lewis Carroll and J.

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