Worse, they had to wait a further nine years, until the publication of Titus Alone, to find out and, when they did, it came as something of a shock, as it may also do for listeners following the radio dramatisation. Those early readers had no idea where Titus would go or what would become of him.
When Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast was first published in 1950, readers got to the end of the book and found that Titus Groan rides away from the ancient ancestral home that had been the setting for Peake's epic tale of ambition, intrigue, revenge and the relentless struggle between tradition and change.
Titus and Muzzlehatch: Image courtesy of the Mervyn Peake Estate
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