The Castle of Otranto Fiction_Gift_Guide Comprehensively researched but experimental in

Comprehensively researched but experimental in spirit

lays claim to the Tichborne baronetcy

"Ample bloodshed is offset by beautiful prose

Learning about the lives and causes of their captors—some of them kind

With all seven under his command

The Castle of Otranto Fiction_Gift_Guide Comprehensively researched but experimental inThe founding work of Gothic fiction On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His calculating father Manfred fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son's bride himself despite the fact he is already married. But a series of terrifying supernatural omens soon threaten this unlawful union, as the curse placed on Manfred's ancestor, who usurped the lawful