Cover of Boy in Darkness

Boy in Darkness

Part of the Gormenghast series

Titus Groan, in his desire to leave the senseless ritual of Gormenghast, becomes trapped in a desert of grey space. While there is no sign of life, something stirs below the ground. Something alone and alive. Something that smiles very gently to itself as it sits upon its throne, waiting patiently...

A master of the macabre and a traveller through the deeper and darker chasms of the imagination.- The Times

Read more

A twentieth century masterpiece from the author of the Gormenghast books, now published in its own right, complete with illustrations.

Genre
fantasyhorror
Themes
gothic
Audience
adult
Length
short · 128 pages
Form
novellashort stories

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Boy in Darkness? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Boy in Darkness. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Elephantasm Shares fantasy, horror, fiction
  2. The Book of the Dead Shares fantasy, horror, sci-fi fantasy
  3. The Book of the Damned Shares fantasy, horror, sci-fi fantasy
  4. The Book of the Mad Shares fantasy, horror, sci-fi fantasy

“People who read Boy in Darkness tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Complete Short Stories
  2. Sweetheart, Sweetheart
  3. Dark Entries
  4. Sustenance

“If you want more of the same (fantasy about gothic), start with these.”

  1. The San Veneficio Canon
  2. Dark Satanic
  3. The Secret Book of Paradys
  4. The Book of the Beast

“If it was the horror that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Louisa the Poisoner
  2. The House in the High Wood: A Story of Old Talbotshire
  3. The Blood Binding
  4. King of the Bastards

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Doctor Who: The Book of the Still
  2. The Time Machine / The Man who could Work Miracles
  3. Ruled
  4. Dark Company