The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

The Castle of Otranto (Romantic to Regency, #400) (The First Gothic Novel) (Oxford Paperbacks) (Argot Early Gothic Collection, #2) (Pocket Penguin Classics) (Everyman) (Classic Fiction) (Classics Illustrated JES, JES18)

by Horace Walpole

The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first Gothic romance, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and 19th century. Walpole, publishing under a pseudonym, claimed the novel was a translation of an Italian romance dating back to the time of the Crusades.

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