Castle of Otranto, The, a Gothic Story
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Castle of Otranto, The, a Gothic Story, by Horace
Walpole, published 1765.
The first of the true ‘
Gothic’ novels, this was an immediate success, and has run to over 150 editions since its original publication. Walpole wrote of its composition, ‘I gave rein to my imagination; visions and passions choked me.’ The narrative is filled with ghosts, vaults, giants, living statues, mysterious appearances and violent emotions of terror, anguish, and love. Walpole's fear of ridicule led him to publish the first edition anonymously, with an elaborate preface describing the author as ‘Onuphrio Muralto’, an Italian canon of Otranto, writing somewhere between the 11th and 13th cents.
The principal characters are Manfred, the tyrant of Otranto; his devoted wife Hippolita; his son Conrad (who is crushed to death by a black-plumed helmet); and Isabella, first betrothed to Conrad, then wooed by Manfred, and finally won by Theodore, a mysterious stranger who is eventually revealed as the rightful Prince of Vicenza.
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