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The Castle of Otranto

Name: The Castle of Otranto
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
ISBN: 9781479453825

By
- Horace Walpole
Publisher
- Wildside Press

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1 Ratings: 3
Language: English
Format
Category: Thrillers

The Castle of Otranto is a book by Horace Walpole first published in 1764 and generally regarded as the first gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle – "A Gothic Story". The novel merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. The aesthetic of the book has shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture.

The novel initiated a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th and early 19th century, with authors such as Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Thomas Beckford, Matthew Lewis, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson and George du Maurier.

Release date

Ebook: 30 September 2020