The Castle of Otranto Illustrated

The Castle of Otranto is a book by Horace Walpole first published in 1764 and 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 in a style 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: Independently published
• | Publication Date: January 09, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 132 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1658056248
• | ISBN-13: 9781658056243