A 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, and death. Steerpike, who
began his climb across the roofs when Titus was born, is now ascending
the spiral staircase to the heart of the castle, and in his wake lie
imprisonment, manipulation, and murder.Gormenghast is the second volume
in Mervyn Peake's widely acclaimed trilogy, but it is much more than a
sequel to Titus Groan--it is an enrichment and deepening of that book.
At this very moment, a new generation of fantasy fans is growing to love
this masterpiece that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most
remarkable feats of imaginative writing.