The Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole. First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first gothic novel. In the second edition...

Otranto (UK: /ɒˈtræntoʊ/, US: /oʊˈtrɑːntoʊ/, Italian: [ˈɔːtranto]; Salentino: Oṭṛàntu; Griko: Δερεντό, romanized: Derentò; Ancient Greek: Ὑδροῦς, romanized: Hudroûs;...

Castle of Otranto (Czech: Otrantský zámek) is a 1977 Czechoslovak animated short film by Jan Švankmajer. It is based on Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The...

In the summer of 1480, the Ottoman Empire invaded southern Italy, and laid siege to Otranto, finally capturing it on 11 August. This was their first outpost...

characteristic of the settings of early Gothic novels. The first work to call itself Gothic was Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, later subtitled...

author of The Castle of Otranto (1764), Horace Walpole noted the importance of manners for social advancement. Walpole's knowledge of the Earl of Chesterfield's...

and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all." Directly influenced by the first Gothic novel, Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, in "The Masque...

reviving the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors. His literary reputation rests on the first Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764)...

work described the fascination with supernatural fiction in English literature from the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto in 1764 to Charles...

with Horace Walpole's seminal and controversial 1764 novel, The Castle of Otranto. In fact, the first edition was published disguised as an actual medieval...

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melancholy interiors of The Castle of Otranto were suggested by the light, elegant, even whimsical rooms at Strawberry Hill". The interiors of Walpole's "little...

broadly-based fiction of the 18th century. Elements of the thriller are traced to the earliest gothic novel with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1765) which...

their own work. The Gothic novel, beginning with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764), was an important precursor of one strain of Romanticism,...

Juno. October 29 – The Hartford Courant newspaper is founded in Connecticut. December 24 – Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto ("A Story. Translated...

stylistic elements, such as the "discovery" of the original manuscript by the author (as in Walpole's The Castle of Otranto) or creating fragmented works...

by the English author Horace Walpole for the main character of his short novel The Castle of Otranto (1764). Montague Summers, in his 1924 edition of this...

sometimes rewrites, of the earliest Gothic thrillers such as The Castle of Otranto or The Monk, as well as new stories about famous criminals. The first ever penny...

published a Swedish translation of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto ("Borgen i Otranto, 1996) in Paul Soares' translation. Edenborg has taken an...

Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and 'Monk' Lewis's The Monk (1795). In the preface of the second edition, Walpole claims The Castle of Otranto is "an...

Brontë's approach to the novel form was influenced by the gothic novel. Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764) is usually considered the first gothic novel...

2015. Clemens, Valdine. Return of the Repressed, The: Gothic Horror from The Castle of Otranto to Alien. State University of New York Press. p. 93. ISBN 9780791499276...

Ghost Stories", The Bookman, December 1929. "The Castle of Otranto: The creepy tale that launched gothic fiction" Archived 2019-07-03 at the Wayback Machine...

of which only The Champion of Virtue and The Old English Baron (1777) became well known. The latter was written in imitation of The Castle of Otranto...

Speculative fiction is an umbrella genre of fiction that encompasses all the subgenres that depart from realism, or strictly imitating everyday reality...

noted in the 1778 preface that "This Story is the literary offspring of The Castle of Otranto, written upon the same plan, with a design to unite the most...

Strawberry Hill, and novel, The Castle of Otranto. Characters which exemplify a gloomy outlook include Eeyore, Marvin and Old Man Gloom. The catchphrase "doom and...

Pony: Friendship Is Magic A fictional character in the Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto, daughter of Manfred Matilda Ajan, in Mobile Suit Gundam A fictional...

detects patterns of and allusions to the Gothic novel, from Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. He concludes...