When I mentioned outlandish metaphor, I mean this kind of thing. Sentences that take you in gloriously unexpected directions even in gratuitous asides
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TITUS GROAN luxuriates in baroque description, outlandish metaphor, and flights of fancy; it won't be to all tastes, but it's absolutely hitting the spot for me.
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Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy feels more like an autumn/winter read, but I didn't want to put it off any longer. By the end of the first paragraph I was all in:
"This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow."
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Gormenghast Book 1: Titus Groan
It's a book filled with fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, and miracles!
https://chasingdings.com/2025/10/31/gormenghast-book-1-titus-groan/
“Dorothy K. Haynes’ weird fiction is truly the stuff of nightmares, where horrors cruel and mundane are interwoven with threads of dark fairy folklore and twisted witchcraft to deliver heady supernatural thrills”
In 2024, the British Library published The Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes, with illustrations by Mervyn Peake
4/4
https://shop.bl.uk/products/the-weird-tales-of-dorothy-k-haynes
#Scottish #literature #gothic #horror #20thcentury #womenwriters #weird #weirdtales #supernatural #shortstories #MervynPeake
Mervyn Peake - Gormenghast : un voyage déroutant et riche d’impressions nouvelles.
Hi!
I’m trying to get active on here, have no idea how to find the right people, so I thought I’d introduce myself.
I’m 27 y/o, from Sweden. I work as a geologist and I spend a lot of time reading books and listening to music. I’m mostly into classics/literary fiction, but also enjoy good #scifi & #fantasy. Some writers I enjoy are: #Tolkien, #RobinHobb, #Turgenev, #dostoyevsky #Zweig, #MervynPeake, #Bulgakov
I used to be part of the ASOIAF fandom on twitter, but that was like 10 years ago…
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