Titus Alone (Gormenghast #3)

The story follows Titus as he travels from Gormenghast and finds a futuristic city dominated by scientists and advanced technology. He travels to a region where a huge modern factory stands by a lake, filled with identical-looking workers. There is a smell of death from the factory and it is hinted that sinister experiments are taking place. Titus is increasingly haunted by his memories of Gormenghast and begins to realise its importance to his identity. At the same time, the world he encounters is so different from his old home that he begins to doubt that Gormenghast ever really existed. Titus is helped by mysterious inhabitants he meets, such as Muzzlehatch, the owner of a zoo, who drives a shark-shaped car and becomes friend and mentor. He is also helped by Muzzlehatch’s former lover, Juno, who becomes Titus’s lover for a brief period. Titus becomes involved with Cheeta, the daughter of the scientist who runs the factory, and who grows to hate Titus and sets out to destroy him. [Suggest a different description.]

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Author Bio for Peake, Mervyn

Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was an English writer, poet and artist. Born in China to a missionary he arrived in England at age 11. In 1934 he spent three years on the island of Sark amongst an artist colony. He returned to London where he taught art, exhibited his own work and illustrated books. He enlisted in the army during World War II but was medically discharged due to shell shock, what we now call post traumatic stress disorder. He continued his duty as a war artist and in 1945 toured the Belsen death camp which profoundly affected him. He began writing his signature gothic fantasy, Titus Groan, which he published in 1946. This was followed by Gormenghast in 1950 and Titus Alone in 1959. Medical problems in his later years included Parkinson's Disease which limited further writing. He died in 1968. (Oxford Companion to English Literature)

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