
Book
The Castle of Otranto
by Horace Walpole
2 hr 26 min read36,559 words8 chapters
a giant, spectral helmet crushes a bridegroom on his wedding day. the birth of the gothic, full of rattling chains and ancestral dread.
Public-domain text.

Book
by Horace Walpole
a giant, spectral helmet crushes a bridegroom on his wedding day. the birth of the gothic, full of rattling chains and ancestral dread.
Public-domain text.