Gormenghast

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Gormenghast refers to a trilogy of books revolving around the Castle Gormenghast, written by Mervyn Peake.

The Gormenghast book series consists of three novels. At least two more (tentatively titled Titus Awakes and Gormenghast Revisited) were planned but never completed, although Titus Alone was published from the author's notes, with heavy editing, in 1959. (The publisher's note of the 1970 Penguin edition of Titus Alone explains how Peake's manuscript was restored.) As the castle is the setting of only the first two books, it might be more properly called the Titus series. Planned as a bildungsroman spanning the hero's life from birth to death, it was cut short by Peake's own death from Parkinson's disease. The books were an early influence on the Mannerpunk subgenre.

• Titus Groan (1946)
• Gormenghast (1950)
• Titus Alone (1959)

The series was turned into a four-episode miniseries produced by the BBC in 2000. Also in 2000, the BBC Drama Lab produced a short film based on Peake's short story Boy in Darkness (1956), which shares the setting of the Gormenghast novels.

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