The Castle of Otranto and Hieroglyphic Tales

THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO (1764) stated the vogue for Gothic fiction with its mix of supernatural happenings, crimes of passion and wronged heir restored; horror story , mystery and , at the same time tantilisingly autobigrophical. THE HIEROGLYPHIC TALES (1785, a collection of surrealistic and eerily modern fables, first appeared in a unique edition printed on Walpole's own press, at his gothic house in Twickenham.