* AuthorExistenceFailure: Peake was planning on a cycle of seven novels, but contracted Parkinson's Disease, which aggravated his emotional and mental instability, before writing the third and died after finishing only one chapter of ''Titus Awakes'', which would have been the fourth.
** The omnibus edition ends with a ''list of the tropes Peake intended to use later on'' (although not referred to by WikiWord, of course) and the words "[[WhatCouldHaveBeen what these books could have been]]." This was perhaps the biggest TearJerker of the whole damn series. For example, there was going to be a revisitation of Gormenghast during an interregnum in which ''Prunesquallor is in charge''. 
** ''Titus Alone'' had to be edited severely because Peake had put in plot elements that arguably ''made absolutely no sense'' given the plots of the previous two books. You have to be pretty sick to forget the plot of your own epic...
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: So, so subverted...
* AwesomeYetPractical: Steerpike kills people with a ''slingshot'' and a '''''sword cane.'''''
** The gag is that whenever a character ''plans'' a particularly dramatic method by which to kill somebody, it inevitably fails. (The Twins' execution axe device, Steerpike's initial plan for Barquentine, Swelter's obsessively detailed cleaver ritual) The library burning is the only instance that ''doesn't'', and is particularly poignant in the post-9/11 conspiratorial era.

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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Peake was planning on a cycle of seven novels, but contracted Parkinson's Disease, which aggravated his emotional and mental instability, before writing the third and died after finishing only one chapter of ''Titus Awakes'', which would have been the fourth. The omnibus edition ends with a ''list of the tropes Peake intended to use later on'' (although not referred to by WikiWord, of course) and the words "[[WhatCouldHaveBeen what these books could have been]]." This was perhaps the biggest TearJerker of the whole damn series. For example, there was going to be a revisitation of Gormenghast during an interregnum in which ''Prunesquallor is in charge''. ''Titus Alone'' had to be edited severely because Peake had put in plot elements that arguably ''made absolutely no sense'' given the plots of the previous two books. You have to be pretty sick to forget the plot of your own epic...
* AwesomeYetPractical: Steerpike kills people with a ''slingshot'' and a '''''sword cane.''''' The gag is that whenever a character ''plans'' a particularly dramatic method by which to kill somebody, it inevitably fails. (The Twins' execution axe device, Steerpike's initial plan for Barquentine, Swelter's obsessively detailed cleaver ritual) The library burning is the only instance that ''doesn't'', and is particularly poignant in the post-9/11 conspiratorial era.

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