Boy in Darkness

About “Boy in Darkness”

Boy in Darkness is a novella by English writer Mervyn Peake. It was first published in 1956 by Eyre & Spottiswoode as part of the anthology Sometime, Never: Three Tales of Imagination. A "corrupt" version of the story was later published in The Inner Landscape and separately in 1976, with an introduction by Peake's widow, Maeve Gilmore. She noted that although the protagonist is clearly Titus Groan, Peake did not name him in the original text. The correct version was reissued in the anthology Boy in Darkness and Other Stories, which includes a foreword by Joanne Harris, a preface by Peake's son Sebastian, and Maeve Gilmore's 1976 introduction. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)