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Synopsis:

The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace

Walpole. It is generally held to be the first gothic novel,

initiating a literary genre which would become extremely

popular in the later 18th century and early 19th

century. Thus, Castle, and Walpole by extension is

arguably the forerunner to such authors as Ann

Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Daphne du Maurier, and

Stephen King.

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