Death
In the late 1950s, while writing Titus Alone, Peake's health subsequently declined into physical and mental incapacitation, and he died on 17 November 1968 at a care home run by his brother in law, at Burcot, near Oxford. He was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's in the village of Burpham, Sussex.
His work, especially the Gormenghast series, became much better known and more widely appreciated after his death. They have since been translated into more than two dozen languages.
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