The Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto
by Horace Walpole
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
THE following work was found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529. How much sooner it was written does not appear. The principal incidents are such as were believed in the darkest ages of Christianity; but the language and conduct have nothing that savours of barbarism. The style is the purest It ...