Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole, which merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, and it was indeed the first novel to describe itself by that term. The aesthetic of the book has shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the Goth subculture. Castle is thus generally credited with init...
The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole, which merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, and it was indeed the first novel to describe itself by that term. The aesthetic of the book has shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the Goth subculture. Castle is thus generally credited with init...
