After his death came Selected Poems ( 1972 ), followed by Peake's Progress in ( 1979 – though the Penguin edition of 1982, with many corrections, including a whole stanza inadvertently omitted from the hardback edition, is to be preferred ).

Though the castle is oppressive and tyrannical, Peake's language continually flames and shimmers with the love of youth, beauty and impermanence.

" " Gormenghast " is the name of the sprawling, crumbling fortress from Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy.

The story is one of Mervyn Peake's rare short works.

Lumley doesn't acknowledge any of these as conscious inspirations, saying that Crow's time-clock ( which derives from Lovecraft's " Through the Gates of the Silver Key ") long predates Who ; that he's never read Peake's Gormenghast and that the similarity of names is coincidental ; and that he " was never too keen on " Derleth's Shrewsbury.

Fuchsia Groan is a fictional character: The daughter of Sepulchrave, 76th Earl of Groan, in Mervyn Peake's novels Titus Groan ( 1946 ) and Gormenghast ( 1950 ).

In an interview with Lumley, Robert M. Price suggests various possible models for Crow, including Miro Hetzel, Jack Vance's futuristic detective, Doctor Who, Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan, August Derleth's Dr. Laban Shrewsbury, William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki and Seabury Quinn's Jules de Grandin.

In 1956 Mervyn and Maeve visited Spain, financed by a friend who hoped that Peake's health, which was already declining, would be improved by the holiday.

In the late 1950s, while writing Titus Alone, Peake's health subsequently declined into physical and mental incapacitation, and he died on 17 November 1968 at a care home run by his brother in law, at Burcot, near Oxford.

A 30-minute TV short film A Boy In Darkness ( also made in 2000 and adapted from Peake's novella ) was the first production from the BBC Drama Lab.

A number of early songs by New Zealand rock group Split Enz were inspired by Peake's work.

Peake's play The Cave, which dates from the mid-1950s, was given a first public reading at the Blue Elephant Theatre in Camberwell ( London ) in 2009, and had its world premiere in the same theatre, directed by Aaron Paterson, on 19 October 2010.

Revised and enlarged in 2009 as Mervyn Peake's Vast Alchemies.

* Winnington, G. Peter ( 2006 ) The Voice of the Heart: the working of Mervyn Peake's imagination.

One of his last screen appearances was in the BBC dramatisation of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, and he was ( almost inevitably ) noted as an ad-libber.

However, Peake's commentary viewed this as a postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation.

* Mervyn Peake's father bought a medical practice at 55 Woodcote Road in 1923, and " Woodcroft " was his home until the early 1930s.

A fourth book, written by Peake's widow, was published in 2009.

At least two other books, tentatively titled Titus Awakes and Gormenghast Revisited, were planned ; but Parkinson's disease and Peake's ensuing death at age 57 prevented him from writing down more than a few hundred words and ideas for further volumes.

In the 1970s, Peake's widow Maeve Gilmore wrote her version of Titus Awakes, which she called Search without End.

to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Peake's birth.

A heavily edited first edition was published in 1959 ; a fuller version compiled by Langdon Jones from Peake's early drafts was issued in 1970 and forms the basis for all subsequent editions.

Also made in 2000, the 30-minute TV short film A Boy In Darkness ( adapted from Peake's novella Boy in Darkness ) was the first production from the BBC Drama Lab.

It was particularly inspired by Mervyn Peake's loss of his mental faculties due to Parkinson's-induced dementia.

Irmin Schmidt, founder of seminal German ' Krautrock ' group Can has written an opera called Gormenghast, based on the novels, and a number of songs including ' Stranger Than Fiction ' and ' Titus ' by New Zealand rock group Split Enz and ' The Drowning Man ' by The Cure were inspired by Peake's work.

Much of the material derived from Tim Finn's and Phil Judd's fascination with the work of English writer and artist Mervyn Peake – notably Spellbound, the track " Stranger Than Fiction " ( their concert centrepiece ) and " Titus ", named after the hero of Peake's Gormenghast trilogy.

Other features quickly followed and, in 1981, he co-wrote ( with Michael Bakewell ) BBC Radio 4's adaptation of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and has also adapted C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia and Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan and Gormenghast for Radio 4, for which he received a Sony Radio Award in 1985.

He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.

Not only is Mr. Frelinghuysen a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but he is the grandson of the man who was instrumental in opening relations between the United States and Korea, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State in the administration of Chester A. Arthur.

The Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar a grandson of Aurangzeb, is also known to have sent a letter to the Ottomans bu this time it was received by the Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damad Ibrahim Pasha providing a graphic description of the informing him of the efforts of the Mughal commander Syed Hassan Ali Khan Barha against the Rajput and Maratha rebellion.

Aga Khan III was succeeded as Aga Khan by his grandson Karim Aga Khan, who is the present Imam of the Ismaili Muslims.

Ajax is the son of Telamon, who was the son of Aeacus and grandson of Zeus, and his first wife Periboea.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

He points that his father-in-law Henry I of England is asking them for a grandson.

In the Apocryphal Testament of Levi, it is stated that Amram was born, as a grandson of Levi, when Levi was 64 years old.

His last years were plagued by ill-health and the turbulence of his grandson Archagathus, at whose instigation he is said to have been poisoned ; according to others, he died a natural death.

* 1294 – Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.

The earliest known member of the house, Esiko, Count of Ballenstedt, first appears in a document of 1036, and is assumed to have been a grandson ( through his mother ) of Odo I, Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark.

Mannasah's righteous grandson Josiah reinstitutes the reforms of Hezekiah, but it is too late: God, speaking through the prophetess Huldah, affirms that Jerusalem is to be destroyed.

Bacardi Limited is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda and has a 16-member board of directors led by the original founder's great-great grandson, Facundo L. Bacardí.

It is now held by Clement Attlee's grandson John Richard Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee.

According to the Chronicle, Áed was followed by Eochaid, a grandson of Kenneth MacAlpin, who is somehow connected with Giric, but all other lists say that Giric ruled after Áed and make great claims for him.

The Chronicle states that the Northmen were killed in Srath Erenn, which is confirmed by the Annals of Ulster which records the death of Ímar grandson of Ímar and many others at the hands of the men of Fortriu in 904.

* " Monib Shahid, grandson of both ` Abdu ' l-Bahá and the King of Martyrs, married according to the Moslem rites the daughter of a political exile who is nephew of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.

The Baron, Duke Leto, and Jessica herself are unaware that Jessica is secretly the Baron's daughter or that he has even fathered one ; in the year 10, 176, the Baron's grandson Paul is born to Leto and Jessica.

* 1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10, 1973.

" Thus in the example above, Hecuba presents herself as a sophisticated intellectual describing a rationalized cosmos yet the speech is ill-matched to her audience, Menelaus ( a type of the unsophisticated listener ), and soon it is found not to suit the cosmos either ( her infant grandson is brutally murdered by the victorious Greeks ).