![]() ![]() The bleak dystopian setting evokes a fantasy world but the book doesn't neatly fit into any established genres. The Gormenghast stories have a distinctive dark gothic tone, with a cast of grotesque characters reminiscent of some of Charles Dickens' more extreme creations. The three books in the series chart Titus' journey to adulthood which culminates in him leaving the Castle. The Castle is inhabited by a grotesque and eccentric collection of Titus' relatives and servants, chief among whom is the kitchen servant Steerpike who plots and schemes to gain power in the surreal, dreamlike dystopia of Castle life. Titus lives in Gormenghast Castle, a crumbling gothic edifice set in a remote and desolate landscape. ![]() The story begins with the birth of Titus Groan, destined to become the seventy-seventh Earl of Groan. ![]()
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