TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walpole, Horace
AU  - Lewis,W.S.
TI  - The castle of Otranto: a gothic story 
T2  - Oxford world's classics
SN  - 9780199537211
AV  - PR 3757.W2 C37.2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Inheritance and succession
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Herencia
KW  - fast
KW  - Italy
KW  - Italia -
KW  - Ficción
KW  - Gothic fiction
KW  - Horror fiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [116]-125)
N2  - "First published pseudonymously in 1764. The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the second edition, 'to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern'. He gives us a series of catastrophes, ghostly interventions, revelations of identity, and exciting contests. Crammed with invention, entertainment, terror, and pathos, the novel was an immediate success and Walpole's own favourite among his numerous works. His friend, the poet Thomas Gray, wrote that he and his family, having read Otranto, were now `afraid to go to bed o'nights'."-- Publisher description
ER  -