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The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story

The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story, Horace Walpole.  The first gothic novel, this has all the expected tropes, most of which are rather hackneyed clichés by now. Murder, bleeding statuary, incest, secret passageways and priests' children.



Originally read January 2005

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