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The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole

The Castle of Otranto

The Castle of Otranto is considered to be the first «Gothic» novel — that is, containing a combination of tropes, like hidden passages, haunted paintings, mysterious sounds, skeletal ghosts, ancestral curses, and unexplained deaths, that essentially invented the genre later made famous by authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, or Henry James. Walpole made a point of creating a novel that blends supernatural elements with more realistic depictions of characters and events.
The plot centers around Manfred, the lord of Otranto Castle, who has just witnessed the death of his son under mysterious circumstances, just as his son was about to be married. Manfred is thrust into a galloping and melodramatic series of events that lean heavily on the supernatural.
Walpole initially published The Castle of Otranto under a pseudonym, claiming that his work was a translation of an ancient Italian manuscript. This framing, along with the purposely archaic writing style, gives the supernatural airs of the novel a decidedly authentic flavor. In later editions Walpole acknowledges his authorship.
Otranto remains a fast-paced and familiar read, thanks to the variety of recognizable tropes it introduced and made popular.
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    Dur­ing this al­ter­ca­tion, some of the vul­gar spec­tat­ors had run to the great church, which stood near the castle, and came back open-mouthed, de­clar­ing that the hel­met was miss­ing from Alf­onso’s statue. Man­fred, at this news, grew per­fectly frantic; and, as if he sought a sub­ject on which to vent the tem­pest within him, he rushed again on the young peas­ant, cry­ing—

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