The Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th and early 19th century, with authors such as Charles Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and Daphne du Maurier.
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I think this book started something I didn't expect, more so an interest in horror fiction that I forgot about because I was too busy trying to be smart. Its marked as the first gothic novel written, and has a pretty neat history. T'is quite good.
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