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The Castle of Otranto

by Horace Walpole

Early gothic novel featuring supernatural curse and mysterious events in medieval castle

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Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole

Walpole invented the Gothic novel with The Castle of Otranto, combining medieval atmosphere with supernatural machinery in a way that spawned an entire genre. His Strawberry Hill house made Gothic a defining aesthetic of the age.

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