Gormenghast written by Mervyn Peake performed by Michael Williams on Cassette (Abridged)

A magnificent flight of Gothic fancy, GORMENGHAST is one of the twentieth-century's greatest imaginative works. Within the crumbling, cobwebbed kingdom of Gormenghast, with its bizarre characters, its eccentrics and its ghosts, Lord Titus, the seventy-seventh earl is aware of the creeping evil that haunts him. His twin sisters and several officials have met terrible and secret ends and Titus feels he must...

either quosh the evil or escape from it. But the world beyond Gormenghast is unknown - and consequently even more terrifying than the dark, mossy castle he calls home.