

They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J.R.R. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books, though the Titus books would be more accurate: the three works that exist were the beginning of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, following his protagonist Titus Groan from cradle to grave, but Peake's untimely death prevented completion of the cycle, which is now commonly but erroneously referred to as a trilogy.

Peake also wrote poetry Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator. Tolkien, but his surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology. Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator.
