Gormenghast is an immense crumbling edifice which Titus Groan, the seventy-seventh Earl, calls home. A gothic labyrinth of spires and bastions, cloisters and passageways, stairways and prison cells, it is a web of Byzantine laws and age-old ceremonies, an empire set to crumble beneath the sheer mass of centuries of conniving, deceit, scheming and killing--an unparalleled feat of literary creativity in the 1900s.
