Reading #mervynpeake "Boy in Darkness" and, by god, it is dark. The Lamb is possibly one of the most terrifying entities I have ever encountered.
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Young Jack Hawkins hangs onto the top-mast as the wind blows about him.
I know this isn't weird, but this 'Treasure Island' illustration by Mervyn Peake is so brilliant and so evocative of travelling into adventure, I'm going to tag it #WyrdWednesday anyway.
#MervynPeake #illustration #artsky
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Oh, this is awesome. Gormenghast is the last thing I expect to find in my timeline (or almost anywhere, tbh)
#MervynPeake
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![Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
The Idiot by Dostoevsky
Tom's Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski
Ada, or Ardor by Nabokov
Collected Short Stories by Nabokov
Collected Short Stories by Kafka
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake
Critique of Pure Reason by Kant
Cosmicomics by Italian Calvino
[Calvino Slot]
Litany of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:255bunketkc7w4gskvnz546j/bafkreidlyk5grtky4oh4yznlnahck5wmzbagrfu244ncjy4qbhu5f7g34i)
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky The Idiot by Dostoevsky Tom's Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski Ada, or Ardor by Nabokov Collected Short Stories by Nabokov Collected Short Stories by Kafka Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake Critique of Pure Reason by Kant Cosmicomics by Italian Calvino [Calvino Slot] Litany of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe
Starting to compile my reading list next year. Here's what I have so far. Considering more philosophy like Kierkegaard, Heidegger, or Levinas. But there's already a lot here. #JorgeLuisBorges #Dostoevsky #Danielewski #Nabokov #Kafka #MervynPeake #Kant #Calvino #GeneWolfe
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Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast illustrated bookmarks by french illustrator Lucy Dreams. Whimsical and mesmerising watercolour and ink illustration printed on three bookmarks. The large Gormenghast castle with its multitude of towers is drawn in Indian ink and dominated by mountains shrouded in mist, painted in watercolour.
Suivez-moi dans mon atelier pour une journée de Novembre cosy où je confectionne des bandeaux pour le set de 3 marques pages illustrés Gormenghast
#illustratedbookmarks #booklovers #mervynpeake #gormenghast #marquepagesillustrés
#fantasy #estycreatorco #illustration
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Titus paddles his canoe through the upper wards of the flooded castle
Titus and the flood
#Gormenghast #TitusGroan #MervynPeake
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"Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape."
✒️🎨 #MervynPeake, British writer and illustrator (#Gormenghast books), #DOTD 17 November 1968. #Art #Illustration #Literature
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Bandages to muffle the gunshot sounds of arthritic knees (I may try this myself)
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AI-generated and somewhat inaccurate rendering of the title character's "Earling" ceremony, showing Titus on a raft in a lake while hundreds of people wearing sackcloth watch from the trees.
Gormenghast Book 1: Titus Groan
It's a book filled with fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, and miracles!
chasingdings.com/2025/10/31/g...
#Review #gormenghast #MervynPeake #TitusGroan
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Artwork by Shinji Asano for Japanese translations of 'Titus Groan', 'Gormenghast' and 'Titus Alone'
#MervynPeake
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From Mervyn Peake’s Titus Groan to our own Narcisa Before Narcisa, our new SubStack: Groan Alone: Why Every Castle is Haunted has dropped.
🔗 Read on Substack: thedaturapress.substack.com
#Gormenghast #MervynPeake #HauntedCastles #NarcisaBeforeNarcisa #ModernGothic #BookTok #IndiePress
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“The waters received her without a sound.”
Fuchsia Groan, lost to the flood.
Every castle is haunted. Discover more on our new Substack dropping Friday.
thedaturapress.substack.com
#NarcisaBeforeNarcisa #Gormenghast #MervynPeake #GothicFiction
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The cover of A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
The cover of The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban
The cover of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
The cover of Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Ursula Le Guin
Joan Aiken
Russell Hoban
Tove Jansson
Alan Garner
Mervyn Peake
#KidLitUK #KidLit #booksky #joanaiken #MervynPeake #KidsBooksFriday
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An illustration of a scene in Mervyn Peake's GORMENGHAST. Swelter the obese cook stands over the fallen body of Mr Flay, with a huge cleaver raised above his head, about to deliver a lethal blow. The moonlit attic behind him is filled with huge timbers and cobwebs.
The brilliant author-illustrator Mervyn Peake was born on this day in 1911.
I was an avid fan of his GORMENGHAST trilogy in my teens and twenties. Here’s an illustration I did of the midnight duel between Swelter and Mr Flay.
#MervynPeake #BOTD
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Today would have been the birthday of Mervyn Peake, one of my heroes. Here's an interesting (but rather heartbreaking) documentary about Peake and Gormenghast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HztT... #kidlituk #UKKidlit #booksky #childrensbooks #mervynpeake #fantasybooks
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“To live at all is miracle enough.”
✒️ #MervynPeake, British writer and illustrator (#Gormenghast books), was #BOTD 9 July 1911. #Art #Illustration #Literature
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An excellent talk by Sue Gedge about the career of Mervyn Peake and why the Gormenghast series is more Gothic.
#mervynpeake #gothicliterature
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By #MervynPeake
When I remember how his spirits throve
Amid dark city streets he did not see
Because his eyes were veiled with poetry
And in his heart the Prophet's wings were wove
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Last night, I dreamt of Gormenghast again.
#books #booksky #gothic #romance #dark #gormenghast #mervynpeake #fantasy #darkfantasy #darkromance #rebecca
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Some more rapidograph pen linework here from a number of years ago. Probably inspired by Mervyn Peake again. I was really trying to get better at developing perspective here.
#gothic #rapidographpen #penandink #mervynpeake #fantasyart #gothicfantasy #traditionalart #blackandwhiteart #doommetal
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Fan art.This is one of my favourite and most influential books I have ever read. Thanks for being weird Mervyn. When I made this, I listened to Domkraft's Sonic Moons over and over. #illustration #mervynpeake #literature #gothic #doommetal #penandink #traditionalart #fiction #book
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Mervyn Peake - Gormenghast : un voyage déroutant et riche d’impressions nouvelles.
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#MervynPeake #Gormenghast
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
10/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
#20bookchallenge
#MervynPeake
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A book that many reputedly can’t finish. Let’s see how far I can make it.
#fantasy #books #reading #gormenghast #mervynpeake
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A darkened hallway full of carvings
Hall of the bright carvings - better version
#MervynPeake #Gormenghast
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