Critical Reception
This unfinished work is not well known, even amongst Peake readers, having been published only in the Overlook editions (albeit in both single volume and omnibus). Mills (2005) comments on the irony of the narrator's comment that Titus would never again see Gormenghast Castle, for "even in the first proposed chapter, Titus returns in a dream to Gormenghast and the fight between Swelter and Flay." The textual repetition in the preadventure was commented upon by Chris Sandow, who stated that "he fragments are clearly no more than early drafts". However, it is not clear that the repetition is an error.
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