SOURCE: "The First Gothic Tale: Its Potentialities," in The Gothic Flame, Russell & Russell, 1957.
In the following excerpt from The Gothic Flame (1957), Varma conjectures about the impetuses to Walpole's composing The Castle of Otranto and discusses its strong and lasting influence on the Gothic and other genres.
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