'Household Tales' from Grimm's Fairytales by Mervyn Peake, 1946

Mervyn Peake, illustrations for a combined edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (Stockholm: The Continental Book Company/Zephyr Books, 1946).

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𝕯𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖗 𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖚𝖆𝖑 𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖓𝖊𝖉 𝖎𝖙𝖘 𝖜𝖍𝖊𝖊𝖑.

(Several characters from the Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake.)

Dave McKean's illustrations for the Gormenghast trilogy.

“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.” (Mervyn Peake)

Image by Ian Miller

Fuchsia Groan of Gormenghast 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

There was Sepulchrave, moving as though in a trance, his tired soul in his eyes, and books beneath his arms. All about were his chains of office, iron and gold. On his head he wore the rust-red crown of the Groans. He took deep sighs with every step, as though each one was the last. Bent forward as though his sorrow weighed him down, he mourned with every gesture. As he moved into the centre of the ring he trailed behind him a long line of feathers, while out of his tragic mouth the sound of hooting wandered.

Mervyn Peake, from Titus Alone (Eyre & Spottiswoode 1959)

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Mervyn Peake - A Reverie of Bone

Christopher Lee (Gormenghast)

are you a gormenghast fan?! ive never rlly seen one before. ive read the first one but im saving the second one because I loved the first too much to read it casually.

I AM a Gormenghast fan. I haven't finished the third book but those first two are some of my favorites ever, and it's just criminally underread.

Gormenghast fans on Tumblr rise up. There are about ten of us I think.

'Gormenghast' illustration from the unpublished series from Mervyn Peake's novel by Charles W. Stewart, 1950

Mervyn Peake, from a combined edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (Stockholm: The Continental Book Company/Zephyr Books, 1946).

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798 Illustrated by Mervyn Peake, 1949

kind of interesting how the land and the weather outside Gormenghast are the complete opposite of it in that they're brightly colored and changing and unpredictable, forest to desert to plains to rocks, baking heat to torrents of rain. And Gormenghast stands still and grey and unmoving, unchanging, bound in tradition more predictable than the seasons. Titus runs away to the forest again and again. The Thing lives in it and embodies it, even as she dies. Flay is banished to the forest but learns to love it and comes back gentler. Every time the rain comes in the books, it changes something important in Gormenghast. Fuchsia runs away to the forest when she's younger, but as she gets older and less free she does this less and less, and when she finally falls she hits her head on the grey stone of Gormenghast. Strange how she was looking at the water when she died, hoping it would release her even then.

I wonder if the still grey Gormenghast contrasted with the wild colorful country around it is anything like the English settlement in China where Mervyn Peake grew up. The traditions of the British Empire fading slowly in a fortress surrounded by an alien landscape with wild weather.

My small town feels a little like Gormenghast at times. I wonder if the world outside is bright and wild and dangerous, and if I could survive it.

Botanic Tournament : Main Bracket !

Round 1 Poll DD

Elanor is a fictional flower that grows in Lorien. It's described as a golden star-shaped flower, and its name means "sun-star" in sindarin. Sam Gamgee named his eldest daughter after this flower, as per hobbit tradition to give flowery names to girls

(Fuchsia)