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A Guided Tour of the Castle of Otranto

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16/03/2010

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With dungeons and ghosts, Rory McGrath explores the first gothic castle in English fiction

4 Extra Debut. With echoing dungeons and sighing ghosts, Rory McGrath explores the first gothic castle in English fiction. From March 2010.

Rory McGrath explores the origins of gothic horror, manifest in the first ever novel about a haunted castle, The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole. 

The book, published in 1764, became the first gothic novel and heralded the start of a new literary genre. 

From 2010.

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