As the novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born.
He stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form
Gormenghast Castle. Meanwhile, far away and in the kitchen, a servant
named Steerpike escapes his drudgework and begins an auspicious ascent
to power.Inside of Gormenghast, all events are predetermined by complex
rituals, the origins of which are lost in time. The castle is peopled by
dark characters in half-lit corridors. Dreamlike and macabre, Peake's
extraordinary novel is one of the most astonishing and fantastic works
in modern fiction.