The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

128 pages first pub 1764 (editions)

fiction classics horror dark mysterious medium-paced
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The Castle of Otranto (1764) is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular through the early 19th century. Walpole is the forerunner to such authors as Charles Robert Maturin, Ann...

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