Hieroglyphic Tales Horace Walpole Literature & Fiction / Humor / Nonfiction Horace Walpole was a distinguished 18th century historian and writer, and his novel The Castle of Otranto was a forerunner of the Gothic genre. Read online 384 Published: 2004
The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole Literature & Fiction / Humor / Nonfiction Horace Walpole\'s classic novel, regarded as the first gothic novel ever published and starting the influential genre. Read online 252 Published: 2012