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The main story in this volume is the novella, Boy in Darkness, about Titus Groan. I’ve reviewed that separately HERE.
Like the main Gormenghast books, these stories are hard to categorise, but all feature subtle (and sometimes unsubtle menace) and wonderfully vivid descriptions, including quietness “resembling that of a cobweb crumbling to the floor or the step of a mouse on moss”; “a land of whiteness where no colours could breathe... I screamed for colour and none came... whiteness like a theor ...more
Like the main Gormenghast books, these stories are hard to categorise, but all feature subtle (and sometimes unsubtle menace) and wonderfully vivid descriptions, including quietness “resembling that of a cobweb crumbling to the floor or the step of a mouse on moss”; “a land of whiteness where no colours could breathe... I screamed for colour and none came... whiteness like a theor ...more
The Gormengahst books have always been among my favourite books, every since I let myself become enraptured by Mervy Peake's "purple prose". Throughout the years, I had been eagerly looking forward to getting my hands on "Boy in Darkness". I was almost afraid that praise for this Gormenghast offshoot wouldn't be able to live up to the praise that it had received. Fortunately, I can now say that "Boy in Darkness" fulfilled and surpassed my expectations and shares with Gormenghast and other books
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