The Castle Of Otranto - 9781979739665

The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. 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". The novel merged medievalism and terror that has endured ever since. The aesthetics of the book shaped modern-day gothic books, films, art, music and the goth subculture.

• • Author: Horace Walpole
• • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Dec 11, 2017
• • Number of Pages: 104 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1979739668
• • ISBN-13: 9781979739665