The Castle of Otranto

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The Castle of Otranto is a novel written by the British Whig politician and historian Horace Walpole. First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first Gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle – A Gothic Story.

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Image: Anonymous (Horace Walpole for the words, presumably anonymous for the typesetter), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.