BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA-
You will hear a radio programme about the origins of gothic horror. Who was Horace Walpole? Horace Walpole biography
When Gothic was born.
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.
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