For seventy-six generations, Gormenghast Castle has been ruled by the ancient Groan family, whose existence is based on the Ritual and shrouded in it like a cobweb. Within these walls, “outbursts of passions, not exceeding the span of a candle flame, flicker and go out with every yawn of Time, for Gormenghast, huge, vague, grinds everything into dust.” The birth of young Titus shattered the silence of the inhabitants of the stone hive. Written 70 years ago, the novel Titus Groan became a literary classic and marked the beginning of the fundamental trilogy about Gormenghast Castle, known throughout the world.