The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

122 pages first pub 1764 (editions)

fiction classics horror dark mysterious medium-paced
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The Castle of Otranto is considered to be the first “Gothic” novel—that is, containing a combination of tropes, like hidden passages, haunted paintings, mysterious sounds, skeletal ghosts, ancestral curses, and unexplained deaths, that essentially...

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