ISBN: 9781596881372
Considered the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre that would influence such authors as Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, and Daphne du Maurier, it tells the story of Manfred, lord of the castle, the death of his son on his wedding day, and the fulfillment of the ancient prophecy surrounding the castle.
HORACE WALPOLE, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797) was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician. He is now largely remembered for Strawberry Hill, the home he built in Twickenham, southwest London where he revived the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors, for his Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto, and his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest.