1764 was when it was first published. In the following year in the second edition it was entitled 'A Gothic Story'.
Horace Walpole wrote The Castle of Otranto.
The Castle of Otranto was created in 1764.
Horace Walpole wrote The Castle of Otranto.
The first Gothic novel written was The Castle of Otrantoby Horace Walpole, in 1764. He wrote it based on a dream he had, in which he found himself in an ancient castle. Other authors of Gothic novels used his ideas and themes to write their own stories later on.
'The Castle of Otranto' by Horace Walpole , the first Gothic book of Horror , was published in 1764.
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"Bram Stoker's Dracula" was first published in 1897 in the United Kingdom by Archibald Constable and Company.
This is the Strait of Otranto.
Rosa Edwards has written: 'James Edwards, Giambattista Bodoni, and the Castle of Otranto'
Gothic horror is typically attributed to writers such as Horace Walpole, with his novel "The Castle of Otranto" published in 1764, often regarded as the first gothic novel. Gothic horror later evolved with authors like Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and Bram Stoker's "Dracula" contributing to the genre's popularity.
i believe that Horace Walpole in "The Castle of Otranto"was the first person and novel to start the interest in Gothic literacy