Contents introduction chapter I. Horace Walpole is one of the influential writers

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1^Horace Walpole’s Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto. British Library.

2^Hamm, Robert B. Jr. (2009). "Hamlet and Horace Walpole at Otranto Castle." SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900

3^Lake, Crystal B. (2013). "Bloody Writings: Manuscripts and Politics at Otranto Castle." Modern philology. 110 (4): 492 (6-band). doi: 10.1086 / 670066. JSTOR 10.1086 / 670066. “... a number of readers, including William Mason, Thomas Gray, and the monthly commentator John Langhorn, considered this work to be a true archival find.

4^Mellor, Ann K. Mary Shelley: her life, her fiction, her beasts. New York: Routledge, 1988. 196-198.

5^Missing, Sophie (March 13, 2010). "Otranto Castle of Horas Walpole." The guard. Guardian media group. Retrieved September 18, 2018.

6^ Reszitnyk , Andrey (September 7, 2012). "Backlash: Romantic Reactions to the Castle of Otranto and the Gothic Charm of England." Retrieved September 19, 2018.

7^Stasi, Carlo (2003). Otranto and l'Ingilterra Note in Storia and Cultura Salentina. Lecce: Argo. Pages 127–159.

8^A horrible story that marked the beginning of Gothic fiction.” December 13, 2014 - via www.bbc.com.

9^Walpole, Henry (1765). Otranto Castle, Gothic History, Preface to the Second Edition. London. p. vi.