The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

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