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Boy in Darkness and Other Stories
| Author: | Mervyn Peake |
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Peter Owen Publishers, 2008 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Fantasy / Horror |
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Synopsis
Boy in Darkness, the centrepiece of this collection, will be of special interest to fans of the Gormenghast books, as it comprises a chapter in the life of Titus Groan that unfolds beyond the pages of Mervyn Peake's monumental trilogy. It begins on the occasion of Titus's fourteenth birthday. Overwhelmed by the pomp and gruelling ritual of life in Gormenghast, he braves an escape from his hereditary gaol. Beyond the castle walls, Titus wanders into a sinister and soulless land, where he is captured by Goat and Hyena, the grotesque henchmen of an evil master intent on claiming young Titus's soul. A disturbingly atmospheric tale, told with the force and simplicity of allegory, 'Boy in Darkness' distills the strange logic of the Gormenghast trilogy into a story of pith and mystery, which bears comparison with Kafka and Poe.
Written across a range of genres, from a ghost story, to wry character studies drawn from his life in London and on the Isle of Sark, the other stories in the volume reveal surprisingly different facets of Peake's uncanny imagination. Ultimately, the collection coheres through Peake's powers to enchant the mundane and to render the fantastic normal.
Featuring 40 illustrations by the author
With a foreword by the acclaimed author Joanne Harris and an introduction by the author's late widow, Maeve Gilmore
Table of Contents:
- Foreword (2008) - essay by Joanne Harris
- Preface (2008) - essay by Sebastian Peake
- Foreword to Boy in Darkness (2008) - essay by Maeve Gilmore
- Boy in Darkness (1956)
- The Weird Journey (1981)
- I Bought a Palm-Tree (1981)
- The Connoisseurs (1981)
- Danse Macabre (1963)
- Same Time, Same Place (1963)
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