Horace Walpole wrote The Castle of Otranto.
The Castle of Otranto was created in 1764.
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Horace Walpole
Rosa Edwards has written: 'James Edwards, Giambattista Bodoni, and the Castle of Otranto'
1764 was when it was first published. In the following year in the second edition it was entitled 'A Gothic Story'.
1764
Credit for the first gothic novel goes to Horace Walpole for 'The Castle of Otranto' and its pretty bad!
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.
This is the Strait of Otranto.
Gothic horror emerged in the late 18th century with works like Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" (1764) and Ann Radcliffe's "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (1794). These early gothic novels set the stage for the genre to blossom in the 19th century with authors like Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe.
it came from the early Victorian era. The first novel is said to be the castle of otranto by horace walpole.<3xx
i believe that Horace Walpole in "The Castle of Otranto"was the first person and novel to start the interest in Gothic literacy