The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret is a podcast in which your hosts, Joanna Hagan and Francine Carrel have emerged from Discworld and are now exploring the worlds of speculative fiction.

This week, we enter Gormenghast with Part 1 of our recap of Mervyn Peake’s ‘Titus Groan’…

Ribs! Sunlight! Slowly-Growing Insanity! 

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Things we blathered on about:

Apotropaic magic – Wikipedia

The Rectory in Red – FolkLands

Peake Studies [Peter Winnington]

Collected Articles on Mervyn Peake [Peter Winnington] 

An Excellence of Peake – Fantastic Metropolis [Michael Moorcock’s article] 

A profusion of Peake – { feuilleton }  

Tolkien vs Lewis: Allegory – R.E. Parrish Comics on tumblr 

Steerpike illustration by Mervyn Peake

Fuschia illustration by Mervyn Peake  

Radial Symmetry (“The Hottest Guy on Campus”) – R. E. Parrish Comics on tumblr  

Music: Chris Collins, indiemusicbox.com