内容简介：
The second book of the Gormenghast trilogy Titus Groan is now seven. Heir to the crumbling castle, to a cobwebbed kingdom, he is also the inheritor of the evil which is now spreading through Gormenghast. Steerpike, who began to climb across the roofs when Titus was born, is now ascending the spiral staircase to the heart of the castle, and in his wake lies manipulation and murder.