• Gormenghast (/ˈɡɔːrmənɡɑːst/) is a fantasy series by British author Mervyn Peake, about the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying,...
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  • Gormenghast is a four-episode television series based on the first two novels of the Gothic fantasy Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake. It was produced...
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  • Gormenghast /ˈɡɔːmənˌɡɑːst/ is a fantasy novel by British writer Mervyn Peake, the second in his Gormenghast series. It is the story of Titus Groan, 77th...
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  • Mervyn Peake (category Gormenghast (series))
    illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The four works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy...
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  • Titus Groan (category Gormenghast (series))
    in 1946. It is the first novel in the Gormenghast series. The other books in the series are the novels Gormenghast (1950) and Titus Alone (1959) and the...
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  • Gormenghast may refer to: Gormenghast (series), a trilogy of novels by Mervyn Peake Gormenghast (novel), second in the series Gormenghast (opera), an...
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  • Titus Awakes (category Gormenghast (series))
    write. It was to have been the fourth novel in the Gormenghast series, after Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone. Peake's own version of Titus Awakes...
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  • Steerpike (category Gormenghast (series))
    Mervyn Peake's novels Titus Groan and Gormenghast. Steerpike might be called the antagonist of the Gormenghast trilogy, but in truth he is more of an...
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  • Titus Alone (category Gormenghast (series))
    published in 1959. It is the third work in the Gormenghast trilogy. The other works are Titus Groan and Gormenghast. With the trilogy, a fourth work, the novella...
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  • fictional character in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series. He is the son of Sourdust, the Master of Ritual of Gormenghast Castle. He is a one-legged, hunchbacked...
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  • Boy in Darkness (category Gormenghast (series))
    by the second novel in the series, Gormenghast. Yearning for freedom from his ceaseless duties as 77th Earl of Gormenghast, he escapes the ancient castle...
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  • millennia (partly inspired by Jack Vance's Dying Earth series, Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series and the poems of T. S. Eliot).[citation needed] However...
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    Lady Fuchsia Groan (category Gormenghast (series))
    Lady Fuchsia Groan is a fictional character in the Gormenghast series of fantasy novels by English writer Mervyn Peake. The daughter of Sepulchrave, 76th...
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  • jester. Barquentine from Mervyn Peake Gormenghast (series); he is the son of Sourdust, the Master of Ritual of Gormenghast castle. The title character from...
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  • AM) licensed to San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. Keda, a character in the Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake Kedah Regional Development Authority (KEDA), a federal...
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  • Stephen King Doubting Castle, from The Pilgrim's Progress G Gormenghast from the Gormenghast series of novels H Hagedorn Castle, the titular castle from The...
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  • Gormenghast is an opera in three acts composed by Irmin Schmidt to an English-language libretto by Duncan Fallowell, based on Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast...
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  • to starting work on the album, noting it had similarities to the Gormenghast series of fantasy novels by Mervyn Peake. Though he considered it "hardly...
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    Bellgrove in the BBC serial Gormenghast, which was adapted from the first two novels of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series. In the 1994 romantic comedy...
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    before he began writing. The setting of his best known novels, the Gormenghast series, may have been inspired by Sark. Dame of Sark, the memoirs of the...
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  • actor best known for his performances in The Cement Garden and the Gormenghast series. He is also a musician and academic, fronting British band Truck,...
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  • garnered comparisons to the works of Charles Dickens, as well as the Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake. Reviewers have likened its the works of Ursula K...
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    with the success of several other series such as C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series and Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea...
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    and he and Law appeared with him in Peter's Friends; Imrie appeared in Gormenghast though the two did not share any scenes. Already being acquainted allowed...
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    was Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan (1946), the book that launched the Gormenghast series. J. R. R. Tolkien played a large role in the popularization and accessibility...
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  • Love Peacock (1785–1866), Headlong Hall Mervyn Peake (1911–1968), Gormenghast series A. J. Pearce (born 1964), Dear Mrs Bird Philippa Pearce (1920–2006)...
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  • SciFiNow. March 20, 2019. Retrieved September 8, 2024. "Characters". Gormenghast. Archived from the original on April 21, 2019. Retrieved August 25, 2021...
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  • modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator, best known for his Gormenghast series Mervyn Pike, Baroness Pike (1918–2004), British politician Mervyn...
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  • like J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series. He connects Ray's calls for preservation and "bucolic bliss" to the...
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    Ancient Darkness series Diana L. Paxson, (born 1943) author of Brísingamen Mervyn Peake, (1911–1968) author of the Gormenghast series Frank E. Peretti...
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