The Castle of Otranto
by Horace Walpole
The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is 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.
Books by Horace Walpole
Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II
The Art of Poetry - an Epistle to the Piso
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
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