The Castle of Otranto
Автор:
Horace WalpoleЖанр:
Научная фантастика;Дата добавления:
2022-03-19Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
37
Description
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...
