Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) was a playwright, painter, poet, illustrator, short story writer, and designer of theatrical costumes, as well as a novelist. Among his many books are the celebrated Gormenghast novels, Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone, and the posthumously published Titus Awakes, the lost book of Gormenghast finished by Peake’s wife Maeve Gilmore after his death. The Gormenghast novels, as well as Peake’s other writings, Mr. Pye and Peake’s Progress, are all available from The Overlook Press.

Mervyn Peake's Titles

Gormenghast Trilogy Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone

The Gormenghast Trilogy

Titus is expected to rule this extraordinary kingdom and his eccentric and wayward subjects. But with the arrival of an ambitious kitchen boy,...


Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone

The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy

Intoxicating, rich, and unique, The Gormenghast Trilogy is a tour de force that ranks as one of the 20th century's most remarkable feats of imaginative...


Titus Awakes The Lost Book of Gormenghast

Titus Awakes

A gothic odyssey beyond the walls of Gormenghast, where the shadows of the past collide with a world that does not remember them.Titus Awakes continues...


Titus Alone

Titus Alone

As the novel opens, Titus, lord of Castle Gormenghast, has abdicated his throne. Born and brought to the edge of manhood in the huge, rotting...


Gormenghast

Gormenghast

A gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government...


Titus Groan

Titus Groan

Dreamlike and macabre, Mervyn Peake's extraordinary novel Titus Groanfirst in the Gormenghast Trilogyis one of the most astonishing and fantastic...


Complete Gormenghast Novels

The Complete Gormenghast Novels

"A gorgeous, volcanic eruption . . . a work of extraordinary imagination" (The New Yorker), The Gormenghast Novels collects Mervyn Peake's classic...