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Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Peake

Peake, Mervyn Laurence

July 9, 1911 – November 17, 1968 (aged 57)

Birth place: Kuling, Kiukiang, Kiangsi, China

30 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
1949 25 Interior Art Yak Mool San The London Mystery Magazine, Vol. 1 No. 1
November 1957 103 Review Sometime, Never Galaxy Science Fiction, November 1957
August 1963 57 Short Fiction Same Time, Same Place Science Fantasy, August 1963
October 1963 46 Short Fiction Danse Macabre Science Fantasy, October 1963
January 1969 58 Interior Art Gormenghast New Worlds, January 1969
February 1969 41 Interior Art The Adventures of Foot-Fruit New Worlds, February 1969
February 1969 41 Short Fiction The Adventures of Foot-Fruit New Worlds, February 1969
April 1969 Cover Art New Worlds, April 1969 New Worlds, April 1969
September 1969 20 Short Fiction The Party at Lady Cusp-Canine's New Worlds, September-October 1969
June 1975 8 Review Mervyn Peake: Writings and Drawings The Science Fiction Review (Monthly), June 1975
January 1982 21 Review Peake's Progress Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #1, January-February 1982
April 1982 20 Review Peake's Progress Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1982
May 1983 47 Review Gormenghast The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1983
May 1983 47 Review Titus Alone The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1983
May 1983 47 Review Titus Groan The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1983
June 1983 172 Review Gormenghast Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1983
June 1983 172 Review Titus Alone Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1983
June 1983 172 Review Titus Groan Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 1983
April 1985 185 Review Mr Pye Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1985
June 1985 35 Review The Drawings of Mervyn Peake Fantasy Review, June 1985
December 1992 173 Review Gormenghast Asimov's Science Fiction, December 1992
December 1992 173 Review Titus Alone Asimov's Science Fiction, December 1992
December 1992 173 Review Titus Groan Asimov's Science Fiction, December 1992
August 2008 Review Collected Poems Strange Horizons, 4 August 2008
June 2009 Review Boy in Darkness and Other Stories StarShipSofa, No 90
June 2009 Review Gormenghast StarShipSofa, No 89
June 2009 Review Letters from a Lost Uncle StarShipSofa, No 90
June 2009 Review Mr. Pye StarShipSofa, No 90
June 2009 Review Titus Alone StarShipSofa, No 89
June 2009 Review Titus Groan StarShipSofa, No 89

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
1985 Prometheus Award Prometheus Hall of Fame Award Titus Groan Nominee
1985 Prometheus Award Prometheus Hall of Fame Award Gormenghast Nominee
1985 Prometheus Award Prometheus Hall of Fame Award Titus Alone Nominee
1990 Prometheus Award Prometheus Hall of Fame Award Titus Groan Nominee
1990 Prometheus Award Prometheus Hall of Fame Award Gormenghast Nominee
1990 Prometheus Award Prometheus Hall of Fame Award Titus Alone Nominee
2001 Retro Hugo Award Best Novel Gormenghast Nominee
2011 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Prix spécial The Sunday Books (Les livres du dimanche) Nominee
2012 Locus Online 20th Century Fantasy Novel Titus Groan Nominee
2012 Locus Online 20th Century Fantasy Novel Gormenghast Nominee
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Year Publication Title
Cover 1939 Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor
Cover 1940 Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes
Cover July 1943 The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of the Better World The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of the Better World
Cover 1946 Titus Groan Titus Groan
Cover 1948 Letters from a Lost Uncle Letters from a Lost Uncle
Cover 1949 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Cover 1949 Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch and Other Stories Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch and Other Stories
Cover 1950 Gormenghast Gormenghast
Cover 1950 The Hounds of Tindalos The Hounds of Tindalos
Cover 1952 The Book of Lyonne The Book of Lyonne
Cover 1953 Mr. Pye Mr. Pye
Cover 1959 Titus Alone Titus Alone
Cover April 1969 New Worlds, April 1969 New Worlds, April 1969
Cover 1970 Gormenghast Gormenghast
Cover 1970 Titus Alone Titus Alone
Cover November 1971 A World Away: A Memoir of Mervyn Peake A World Away: A Memoir of Mervyn Peake
Cover 1972 Titus Groan Titus Groan
Cover 1974 Mervyn Peake: A Biographical and Critical Exploration Mervyn Peake: A Biographical and Critical Exploration
Cover 1974 Mervyn Peake: Writings & Drawings Mervyn Peake: Writings & Drawings
Cover 1974 The Drawings of Mervyn Peake The Drawings of Mervyn Peake
Cover May 1977 Household Tales Household Tales
Cover 1981 Mr. Pye Mr. Pye
Cover 1981 Peacocks and Pagodas and the Best of Dorothy K. Haynes Peacocks and Pagodas and the Best of Dorothy K. Haynes
Cover 1981 Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake
Cover 1984 Mervyn Peake: A Personal Memoir Mervyn Peake: A Personal Memoir
Cover 1984 The Drawings of Mervyn Peake The Drawings of Mervyn Peake
Cover 1988 The Fifth Child The Fifth Child
April 1992 Titus Alone Titus Alone
Cover November 2000 Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake
Cover 2001 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Cover September 2001 Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
Cover September 2006 Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art Mervyn Peake: The Man and His Art
Cover September 2006 The Voice of the Heart: The Working of Mervyn Peake's Imagination The Voice of the Heart: The Working of Mervyn Peake's Imagination
Cover June 2011 Peake's Progress Peake's Progress
Cover June 2011 Titus Awakes Titus Awakes
Cover July 2011 The Sunday Books The Sunday Books
Cover July 2011 Titus Awakes Titus Awakes

Year Publication Title
1939 Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor
1940 Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes Ride a Cock-Horse and Other Nursery Rhymes
July 1943 The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of the Better World The Adventures of the Young Soldier in Search of the Better World
1946 Household Tales Household Tales
1949 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1949 Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch and Other Stories Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch and Other Stories
1949 The London Mystery Magazine, Vol. 1 No. 1 Yak Mool San
1950 Gormenghast Gormenghast (title page)
1952 The Book of Lyonne The Book of Lyonne
1953 Mr. Pye Mr. Pye
1959 Titus Alone Titus Alone (frontispiece)
October 1968 Gormenghast Gormenghast
October 1968 Titus Alone Titus Alone
October 1968 Titus Groan Titus Groan
February 1969 New Worlds, February 1969 The Adventures of Foot-Fruit
1971 New Worlds Quarterly A Literature of Comfort
1971 New Worlds Quarterly The Day We Embarked for Cythera
1971 New Worlds Quarterly The Lamia and Lord Cromis
1971 Titus Alone Titus Alone (frontispiece)
1974 Rhymes Without Reason A Languorous Life
1974 Rhymes Without Reason All Over the Lilac Brine!
1974 Rhymes Without Reason I Waxes and I Wanes, Sir
1974 Rhymes Without Reason I Wish I Could Remember
1974 Rhymes Without Reason It Makes a Change
1974 Mervyn Peake: Writings & Drawings Mervyn Peake: Writings & Drawings
1974 Rhymes Without Reason My Uncle Paul of Pimlico
1974 Rhymes Without Reason Sensitive, Seldom and Sad
1974 Rhymes Without Reason The Camel
1974 Rhymes Without Reason The Crocodile
1974 The Drawings of Mervyn Peake The Drawings of Mervyn Peake
1974 Rhymes Without Reason The Hippopotamus
1974 Rhymes Without Reason The Sunlight Falls Upon the Grass
1974 Rhymes Without Reason Upon My Golden Backbone
1974 Rhymes Without Reason What a Day It's Been!
1976 Boy in Darkness Boy in Darkness
1976 Mervyn Peake Mervyn Peake (back cover)
1978 Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake Figures of Speech
1978 Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake For Mr Pye - An Island
1978 Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake Mocus Poems
1978 Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake The Quest for Sita
1978 Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb
1978 Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake The Wit to Woo
January 1980 Lettres d'un oncle perdu Lettres d'un oncle perdu
1983 The Titus Books The Titus Books
June 1996 Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch And here, too, was her mother, saiking by in an eggshell
June 1996 Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch It only opened its lips in a sort of hiss
June 1996 Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch Mary saw that it was nor her mother at all
June 1996 Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch Suddenly it began to yelp
June 1996 Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch The small men were holding high carnival
June 1996 Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch The tune came in wild little gusts
June 1996 Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch The witch had been sitting on the gargoyle all day
June 1996 Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch Where had they gone?
June 1996 Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch Without the bowler, he looked like a lizard
2001 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
September 2001 Letters from a Lost Uncle Letters from a Lost Uncle
September 2001 Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There
June 2011 The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy
June 2011 The Sunday Books The Sunday Books
July 2011 The Sunday Books The Sunday Books
April 2016 De avonturen van Alice De avonturen van Alice
October 2024 The Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes The Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes [2]
October 2024 The Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes Thr Weird Tales of Dorothy K. Haynes [3]