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The Castle of Otranto

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First published: 1764
Pages: 106

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Preface
9:12
Chapter 01
47:33
Chapter 02
48:27
Chapter 03
48:40
Chapter 04
43:44
Chapter 05
40:31

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When a giant helmet mysteriously crushes his son to death on his wedding day, the tyrannical Prince Manfred schemes to secure his crumbling dynasty amid supernatural omens, ancient prophecies, and a haunted castle. Walpole's short, feverish tale of doom and the supernatural was the very first Gothic novel, inventing the genre of brooding castles, ghostly apparitions, and imperiled heroines that would flourish for centuries after. Wild, melodramatic, and hugely influential, it opened the door to Radcliffe, Shelley, Poe, and all of Gothic fiction. A foundational work of horror and Romanticism, The Castle of Otranto is where the haunted-castle tradition began.

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Horace Walpole

Horace Walpole was an eighteenth-century British author, letter writer, art historian and printer associated with Strawberry Hill. A Letter from Xo Ho A Chinese Philosopher at London, issued in 1757 under a longer title, uses an imagined visitor’s perspective for political satire.