Books by Mervyn Peake
“Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast comes out at a pretty similar time to Tolkien…There’s no real magic in Peake; there are no wizards as such. Instead, there’s this enormous castle – that’s what he usually calls it – which is Gormenghast. It sprawls over vast distances and is inhabited by deeply weird people living by strange rituals.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Mervyn Peake were recommended
Classic Fantasy Books, recommended by Matthew Sangster
A fantasy ‘classic’ is a book that enables a new kind of story to be written, says fantasy scholar Matthew Sangster. He introduces five classics, and explains how they both build on and subvert our shared stock of stories to create wonderful new worlds – worlds that are not made to be admired from a distance, but rather to be lived inside, and shared.
