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The Castle of Otranto
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The Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto
is a 1764 novel by
Horace Walpole
. It is generally regarded as the first
gothic novel
, initiating a
literary genre
which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century, with authors such as
Charles Maturin
,
Ann Radcliffe
,
Bram Stoker
,
Edgar Allan Poe
and
Daphne du Maurier
.
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