The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel have emerged from Discworld and are now exploring the worlds of speculative fiction.
This week, we enter Gormenghast with Part 1 of our recap of Mervyn Peake’s ‘Titus Groan’...
Ribs! Sunlight! Slowly-Growing Insanity!
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Things we blathered on about:
Apotropaic magic - Wikipedia
The Rectory in Red - FolkLands
Peake Studies [Peter Winnington]
Collected Articles on Mervyn Peake [Peter Winnington]
An Excellence of Peake - Fantastic Metropolis [Michael Moorcock’s article]
A profusion of Peake – { feuilleton }
Tolkien vs Lewis: Allegory - R.E. Parrish Comics on tumblr
Steerpike illustration by Mervyn Peake
Fuschia illustration by Mervyn Peake
Radial Symmetry ("The Hottest Guy on Campus") - R. E. Parrish Comics on tumblr
Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com
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