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The Castle of Otranto

a story

by Horace Walpole & Henry Morley (Editor)

  • First published:
  • 18th century
  • Languages: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
  • Content type: Fiction
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This book is the earliest and most influential of the Gothic novels. 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 favorite among his numerous works. - Back cover.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Legendary beings and transformations, Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends, Occultism and esotericism, and Prophecy, oracles, and revelation.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from global-grey matched “Horror and Occult”. Retained metadata contains “occult” in the subject metadata.

    • “Horror and Occult”· via Global Grey ebooks
    • “occult”· in subject
  • Legendary beings and transformations

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Vampires”. Retained metadata contains “Vampires” in the subject metadata.

    • “Vampires”· via Open Library
    • “Vampires”· in subject
  • Prophecy, oracles, and revelation

    A contributing source assigned this topic during controlled cataloging, but the exact triggering term is not present in the merged metadata.

  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical and project-gutenberg matched “Tales” and “tales”. Retained metadata contains “Tales” in the subject metadata.

    • “Tales”· via Open Library
    • “tales”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Tales”· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Editions

Open Library reports 582 editions; 3 cataloged here.

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a story

Open Library record

1765Printed for Tho. Lownds ...English—Public

Project Gutenberg electronic edition

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1996-10-01Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 582 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
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openlibrary-work:OL183675W
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