El Chico En La Oscuridad

As the novel opens, Titus, lord of Castle Gormenghast, has abdicated his throne. Born and brought to the edge of manhood in the huge, rotting castle, Titus rebels against the age-old ritual of which he is both lord and prisoner and rushes headlong into the world. From that moment forward, he is thrust into a stormy land of a dark imagination, where figures and landscapes loom up with the force and vividness of a dream--or a nightmare. This final installment in the Gormenghast Trilogy is a fantastic triumph--a conquest awash in imagination, terror, and charm.

Mervyn Peake (1911 - 1968) was a British writer, poet and illustrator. He is best known for the Titus books (also called the Gormenghast trilogy), which comprise Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus alone. The three existing works of this saga are only the beginning of what Peake conceived as a much longer cycle, which would recount the adventures of his protagonist Titus Groan throughout his life, but death surprised the author before he could finish it. The work, unfinished, is often considered, erroneously, as a trilogy. His work is also often compared to that of his contemporary J. R. R. R. Tolkien, although the surrealistic treatment of his stories is more influenced by his early admiration for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson than Tolkien's studies of mythology.