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Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake.
It's the first in a sort of trilogy called Gormenghast, after the enormous, crumbling, sprawling castle in and around which the story takes place. It and the second book - also called Gormenghast - tell a complete story, but it also stands alone. The third book - Titus Alone - changes the setting and supporting characters entirely, and was left unfinished at Peake's death.
Peake was quite simply one of the most talented prose stylists ever. And he created a setting and characters that are so bizarre that they couldn't possibly actually exist, then breathed them so full of so much richly detailed life that it seems as if they not only can exist, but do.