Storm-nibbled heads
A thousand years of storm wear wipes the faces from the stone heads decorating Gormenghast stormenghast, eyes and features flattened...
Temple-haunting martlet
This gentle, entrancing description of Macbeth's castle has it providing a home for house martins to build their nests, giving...
Towering insult
Gormenghast is a vast, sprawling town of a castle, which seems to have spread organically. Here one of its towers...
As neat and fierce as …
Something refreshing about this simile, beginning with the surprising combination of 'neat' and 'fierce' and then the even more surprising...
Half-glimpsed chateau
I know little about architecture in the formal sense but am in love with buildings, forever looking at them and...
Cormorant-haunted castle
An abandoned fortress, occupied only by cormorants. No wonder, the human inhabitants probably fled an atmosphere described as the 'architecture...
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