A villain threaten the rise of a new earl in an ancient kingdom. Gormenghast is an ancient city-stat...
A villain threaten the rise of a new earl in an ancient kingdom.
Gormenghast is an ancient city-state which primarily conists of a rambling and crumbling castle. The narrative, based on the firt two of the three Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake, begin with the birth of a son, Titus, to the 76th Earl, Sepulchrave Groan, and Countess Gertrude. This mismatched pair (he'd prefer the melancholy privacy of his library; she'd prefer the company of her menagerie of cats and birds) also have a teenaged daughter, Fuchsia, who resents her new brother but comes to love him dearly. Simultaneously, a young kitchen apprentice, Steerpike, takes advantage of an altercation between head cook Swelter and the Earl's manervant, Mr. Flay, and escapes from the kitchen. Gormenghast is rigidly feudal in structure, but Steerpike has ambition. He befriends the imaginative, yearning Fuchsia, and through her becomes apprenticed to the castle physician, Dr. Prunesquallor, who lives with his man-hunting sister Irma. This position allows Steerpike to work his way into the...
