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Revision as of 11:00, 26 September 2001 by Pinkunicorn (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Gothic novel can be said to have been born with "The Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole.
Prominent features of many gothic novels are mystery, doom, decay, old buildings with ghosts in them, madness hereditary curses and so on.