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The Castle of Otranto

by Horace Walpole

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"The introduction is quite interesting but a bit tedious. The points made about the eerie, the lurking, the not quite graspable as qualities of a gothic novel connected with a specific architecture reminds me of the current aesthetics of liminal spaces, so that was interesting to compare" — Oct 16, 2026 04:52PM

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