The Castle of Otranto is considered the first supernatural English novel and also the first gothic novel. It describes itself as a translation of an Italian story from the Middle Ages about Manfred, ...

Warning: This article discusses topics of violence, death, and sexual matters. Gothic books and short stories are an ...

THE SCAPEGOAT (209 pp.) — Jocelyn Brooke—Harper ($2.50). When this spooky little novel appeared in England last year, it threw the critics into a tizzy. Elizabeth Bowen wrote: “This book, read in two ...

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Daphne Du Maurier's “Rebecca” is now 87 years old, it is an immediate best-seller, never once taken out of print, and one of the best examples of Gothic literature of all time. It has also inspired ...