He dreads the long life before him, a life of ruling a single building, never leaving the moth-eaten, rusted-shut, claustrophobic, crumbling halls of pointless, decaying ritual. The books, more accurately called the Titus trilogy, concern the titular Titus Groan, the 77th Earl of Groan. The novels revolve around a series of grotesque and idiosyncratic characters who live inside a huge castle with surrounding huts which appears to be cut off from the rest of the world. The Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake are three fantasy novels which take place in a Constructed World notable for eschewing the supernatural and the menagerie of beings associated with Lewis Carroll and J.
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