"The moon slid inexorably into its zenith, the shadows shrivelling to the feet of all that cast them, and as Rantel approached the hollow at the hem of the Twisted Woods he was treading in a pool of his own midnight."

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Source : Mervyn Peake (1995). “The Gormenghast Novels”, Overlook Books

Mervyn Peake

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