- Author: Mervyn Peake Author Record # 2318
- Legal Name: Peake, Mervyn Laurence
- Birthplace: Kuling, Kiukiang, Kiangsi, China
- Birthdate: 9 July 1911
- Deathdate: 17 November 1968
- Language: English
- Webpages: Encyclopedia of Fantasy, fantasticmetropolis.com, IMDB, Library of Congress, mervynpeake.org, SFE3, Wikipedia-EN
- Additional Biographical Data: Bio:Mervyn Peake
- Author Tags: fantasy (6), Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 1946-1987 (4), humour (2), castle (2), gothic (2), into-tv (2), 99 Novels: The Best in English 1939-1984 (1), Fantasy: The 100 Best Books (1), religion (1), angels (1), devils (1), Merril09 (1), The Seven-League Shelf (1)
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Fiction Series
- Gormenghast
- 1
Titus Groan (1946)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Der junge Titus [German] (1982)
- Translation: Titus d'enfer [French] (1998)
- Translation: De Bestemming [Dutch] (1999)
- Translation: Titus: O Herdeiro de Gormenghast [Portuguese] (2007)
- 2
Gormenghast (1950)
also appeared as:
- Translation: De Beslissing [Dutch] (2000)
- 3
Titus Alone (1959)
also appeared as:
- Translation: De Beproeving [Dutch] (2001)
- 4 Titus Awakes (2011) with Maeve Gilmore
- Boy in Darkness (1956) [SF]
- The Gormenghast Trilogy (Boxed Set) (1968) [O/1,2,3]
-
The Gormenghast Trilogy (1983) [O/1,2,3]
also appeared as:
- Variant: The Titus Books (1983) [O/1,2,3]
- Variant: The Gormenghast Novels (1995) [O]
- Variant: The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy (2011) [O]
- Titus Awakes (1995) [SF]
- 1
Titus Groan (1946)
also appeared as:
-
Letters from a Lost Uncle (1948)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Lettres d'un oncle perdu [French] (1980)
- Mr. Pye (1953)
-
The Sunday Books (2011)
with
Michael Moorcock
also appeared as:
- Translation: The Sunday Books (Les livres du dimanche) [French] (2010)
- Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes (1940)
- Mervyn Peake: Writings & Drawings (1974)
- Rhymes Without Reason (1974)
- Peake's Progress (1981) with Maeve Gilmore
- Boy in Darkness and Other Stories (2008)
- Collected Poems (2008)
- Peake's Progress (2011)
- Sometime, Never (1956) with William Golding and John Wyndham
- Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (1939)
- Boy in Darkness (1976)
- The Drawings of Mervyn Peake (1974)
- Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (1939)
- The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of the Better World (1943)
- Titus Groan (1946)
- Letters from a Lost Uncle (1948)
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1949)
- Gormenghast (1950)
- Mr. Pye (1953)
- Titus Alone (1959)
- New Worlds,#189 April 1969 (1969)
- Gormenghast (1970)
- Titus Alone (1970)
- Titus Groan (1972)
- Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (1977)
- Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake (1981)
- Titus Alone (1992)
- Mr. Pye (1999)
- Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake (2000)
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (2001)
- Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There (2001)
- Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art (2006)
- The Voice of the Heart: The Working of Mervyn Peake's Imagination (2006)
- Peake's Progress (2011)
- Titus Awakes (2011)
- Peake's Progress (2011)
- Titus Awakes (2011)
- The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy (2011)
- Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (1939)
- Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes (1940)
- A Languorous Life (1944)
- All Over the Lilac Brine! (1944)
- I Waxes and I Wanes, Sir (1944)
- I Wish I Could Remember (1944)
- It Makes a Change (1944)
- My Uncle Paul of Pimlico (1944)
-
Sensitive, Seldom and Sad (1944)
also appeared as:
- Cover Art: Rhymes Without Reason (1974)
- The Crocodile (1944)
- The Hippopotamus (1944)
- The Sunlight Falls Upon the Grass (1944)
- Upon My Golden Backbone (1944)
- What a Day It's Been! (1944)
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1946)
- Household Tales (1946)
- Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There (1946)
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1949)
- Gormenghast (title page) (1950)
- Mr. Pye (1953)
- Titus Alone (1959)
- Titus Alone (frontispiece) (1959)
- Titus Groan (1968)
- Gormenghast (1968)
- The Adventures of Foot-Fruit (1969)
- A Literature of Comfort (1971)
- The Day We Embarked for Cythera (1971)
- The Lamia and Lord Cromis (1971)
- Titus Alone (frontispiece) (1971)
- The Camel (1974)
- Boy in Darkness (1976)
- Lettres d'un oncle perdu [French] (1980)
- Figures of Speech (1981)
- For Mr Pye - An Island (1981)
- Mocus Poems (1981)
- The Quest for Sita (1981)
- The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb (1981)
- The Wit to Woo (1981)
- The Titus Books (1983)
- A Story at Bedtime (1996)
- Changeling (1996)
- Music in the Memory (1996)
- Paying Guests (1996)
- The "Bean-Nighe" (1996)
- The Gay Goshawk (1996)
- The Peculiar Case of Mrs. Grimmond (1996)
- The Trap (1996)
- Windfall (1996)
- Letters from a Lost Uncle (2001)
- The Sunday Books (2011)
- Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor (1939)
-
Same Time, Same Place (1963)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Morgen um die gleiche Zeit [German] (1972)
- Translation: Même endroit, même heure [French] (1979)
- Translation: Eens...Ergens... [Dutch] (1988)
- Danse Macabre (1963) also appeared as:
- The Adventures of Foot-Fruit (1969)
- The Party at Lady Cusp-Canine's (1969)
- For Mr Pye - An Island (1981)
- I Bought a Palm-Tree (1981)
- Mr Slaughterboard (1981)
- Noah's Ark (1981)
- The Connoisseurs (1981)
- The House of Darkstones (1981)
- The Touch o' the Ash (1981)
- The Weird Journey (1981)
- The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs (1981)
- The Wit to Woo (1981)
- A Languorous Life (1944)
- All Over the Lilac Brine! (1944)
- I Waxes and I Wanes, Sir (1944)
- I Wish I Could Remember (1944)
- It Makes a Change (1944)
- My Uncle Paul of Pimlico (1944)
- Sensitive, Seldom and Sad (1944)
- The Camel (1944)
- The Crocodile (1944)
- The Hippopotamus (1944)
- The Sunlight Falls Upon the Grass (1944)
- Upon My Golden Backbone (1944)
- What a Day It's Been! (1944)
- Fish or Fowl (1976)
- Pictures & Paints (1976)
- The Rhino and the Lark (1976)
-
At Time of Half-Light (1978)
only appeared as:
- Translation: Aux heures crépusculaires [French] (1978)
-
When God Pared his Fingernails (1978)
only appeared as:
- Translation: Lorsque Dieu eut coupé... [French] (1978)
-
When Tiger-Men Sat their Mercurial Coursers (1978)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Quand les hommes-félins.... [French] (1978)
- 'An old and crumbling parapet' (1981)
- 'Come, break the news to me, Sweet Horse' (1981)
- 'Fish or fowl, it's all the same' (1981)
- 'Hail! Tommy-Two-legs' (1981)
- 'How good is it to be alone' (1981)
- 'My arms are rivers' (1981)
- 'Out of the overlapping' (1981)
- 'She stared at him' (1981)
- 'the paper is breathless' (1981)
- 'Thunder the Christ of it' (1981)
- 'When I was wounded' (1981)
- A Reverie of Bone (1981)
- Absent from You (1981)
- An Ugly Crow Sits Hunched on Jackson's Heart (1981)
- Aunts and Uncles (1981)
- Because Last Night My Child Clung to My Neck (1981)
- Blake (1981)
- Coloured Money (1981)
- Conceit (1981)
- Dead Rat (1981)
- Digging a Trench (1981)
- Eagle (1981)
- El Greco (1981)
- For Maeve (1981)
- Fort Darland (1981)
- Grottoed Beneath Your Ribs (1981)
- How Mournful to Imagine (1981)
- I Cannot Give the Reasons (1981)
- I Waxes, and I Wanes, Sir (1981)
- In the Fabric of This Love (1981)
- London, 1941 (1981)
- May 1940 (1981)
- Mocus Poems (1981)
- Oh, Here It Is! And There It Is! (1981)
- Palais de Danse (1981)
- Rather Than a Little Pain (1981)
- Rembrandt (1981)
- Rhondda Valley (1981)
- Shrink! Shrink! (1981)
- Sing I the Fickle, Fit-for-Nothing Fellows (1981)
- The Boy (1981)
- The Bull-Frog and the Flies (1981)
- The Cocky Waters (1981)
- The Consumptive, Belsen 1945 (1981)
- The Giraffe (1981)
- The Jailor and the Jaguar (1981)
- The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb (1981)
- The Shapes (1981)
- The Three (1981)
- The Trouble With Geraniums (1981)
- The Two Fraternities (1981)
- The Vastest Things (1981)
- Tides (1981)
- Tintinnabulum (1981)
- To Live at All Is Miracle Enough (1981)
- To Maeve (1981)
- Van Gogh (1981)
- Victims (1981)
- With People, So With Trees (1981)