THE GOTHIC NOVEL

WHO INVENTED THE G.N.? Horace Walpole, was the inventor of the gothic novel.

WHAT WAS THE FIRST G.N.?  The Castle of Otranto was the first gothic novel.

WHEN WAS IT FIRST PUBLISHED?  It first published in 1764.

WICH BASIC ELEMENTS OF HORROR DIDN'T YOU INCLUDE IN YOUR LIST?

• Setting in a castle
• Omens, portents, visions
• High, even overwrought emotion.
• An ancient prophecy
• Women threatened by a powerful, impulsive, tyrannical male
• Necromancer
• Dismal
• Melancholy
• Goblins
• Prophecy
• Spectre