“Autumn returned to Gormenghast like a dark spirit re-entering its stronghold.”
Mervyn Peake book Titus Groan
Source: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 28 “Flay Brings a Message” (p. 152)
“The window opened gently and a still Autumn night entered cat-like. Edwin smelt freedom and London autumn – decay, smoke, cold, motor oil.”
Fiction, The Doctor is Sick (1960)
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