Lord Sepulchrave Groan's a character in Mervyn Peake's novels Titus Groan . Character Sepulchrave's the 76th successor to the title of Earl of Groan and Lord of Gormenghast, the gigantic, isolate citadel-state which forms the setting/otherworld for the Titus Groan novels of Mervyn Peake. He's father to Titus Groan and Fuchsia Groan, brother to Cora and Clarice Groan, and estranged husband to the Countess Gertrude. He's afflicted by an intense melancholia that leaves him psychologically paraly… (More on Sepulchrave)