Written as a self-declared offspring of Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, this story takes place in fifteenth-century England. Edmund, a cottager’s son raised in the household of Baron Fitz-Owen, wins favour and envy in equal measure. When he is made to spend nights in a shut-up apartment of the castle, strange sounds and dreams begin to point to a buried crime.
A founding text of Gothic fiction, gentler and more reasoned than Walpole, and a direct influence on later writers. Download the free EPUB.