Mervyn Peake 
The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy 

Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is lord and heir.
Titus is expected to rule this gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons (and his eccentric and wayward subjects) according to strict age-old rituals, but things are changing in the castle. Titus must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder as well as his own longing for a life beyond the castle walls.
» A master of the macabre and a traveller through the deeper and darker chasms of the imagination» The Times
» Dark, dense, baroque and hauntingly beautiful. Peake»s lush prose and imagery are a pleasure to any lover of the beauty of the written word, » Carlos Ruiz-Zafron, author of The Shadow of the Wind