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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." #books #reading #MervynPeake #literature #fantasy #Gothic #fiction