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