The Castle of Otranto
- ISBN-10
- 1545275882
- ISBN-13
- 9781545275887
- Series
- The Castle of Otranto
- Pages
- 134
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-04-10
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Author
- Horace Walpole
Description
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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