01744cam a2200313 4500 611259859 TxAuBib 20230329120000.0 020401s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2002278393 9780140437676 PAP 11.00 0140437673 PAP 11.00 TxAuBib Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. The castle of Otranto [BOOK] / Horace Walpole ; edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Gamer. ONORDER061228. London : Penguin Books, 2001. xlii, 159 pages ; 20 cm. Penguin classics Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxvi-xl). Set in the time of the crusades, The Castle of Otranto (1764) established the Gothic as a literary form in England. With its compelling blend of psychological realism and supernatural terror, guilty secrets and unlawful desires, it has influenced a literary tradition stretching from Ann Radcliffe and Bram Stoker to Daphne Du Maurier and Stephen King. This Penguin Classics edition includes a full selection of early responses to the novel, as well as a critical introduction, chronology of Walpole's life and works, suggestions for further reading, and full explanatory notes. "[Walpole] is the father of the first romance and surely worthy of a higher place than any living writer." (Lord Byron.) 20230329. Inheritance and succession Fiction. Italy Fiction. Gothic fiction. Horror fiction. Gamer, Michael. Penguin classics.