num_pages: 953
description: This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN13:
  9780099288893
Gormenghast is the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation and murder - a tour de force that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing.
language: English
title: The Gormenghast Trilogy
titlecomplete: The Gormenghast Trilogy (Gormenghast #1-3)
characters: Mr. Flay, Nannie Slagg, Fuchsia Groan, Titus Groan, Clarice Groan, Cora Groan, Abiatha Swelter, Keda, Gertrude Groan, Dr. Alfred Prunesquallor, Lord Sepulchrave, Steerpike
genres: Classics, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Gothic, Science Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Literature, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 9235
places: Gormenghast
series: Gormenghast
publisher: Vintage