Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto turned architecture into horror’s greatest weapon

by Peter Nelson Lindfield

Threateningly ill-defined buildings, enough for our imagination to fill in the gaps, seem to be the ideal catalyst to spark terror.

https://theconversation.com/horace-walpoles-the-castle-of-otranto-turned-architecture-into-horrors-greatest-weapon-295422?utm_campaign=the-daily-40143&utm_content=the-daily-40143_uk%7C2%7C40143%7C80348329&utm_medium=email&utm_source=braze&utm_term=Horace+Walpole%E2%80%99s+The+Castle+of+Otranto+turned+architecture+into+horror%E2%80%99s+greatest+weapon

The Castle of Otranto at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/696

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