Enter the world of Gormenghast ... the vast ruined castle of which the seventy-seventh earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Gothic maze of rooftops and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairways and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed realm of Byzantine government and ancient rituals, a world poised to implode under the weight of centuries of intrigue, betrayal, manipulation and murder. Gormenghast is more than a sequel to Titus Groan; it is an enrichment and a deepening of that book. The incident's fertility, character, and rich atmosphere combine in a tour de force that ranks as one of the most remarkable feats of imaginative writing of the 20th century.
