"The Castle of Otranto" is animation/short/mockumentary based on "The Castle of Otranto", a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole, the first Gothic novel. The novel takes ...

The term Gothic first became linked to literature with Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, later subtitled A Gothic Story. This term was probably given because of the book's ...

Although less well known now, Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto was a huge commercial success when published in 1764. Walpole had built his Gothic revivalist palace, Strawberry Hill House ...