SOURCE: "The Beginnings of Gothic Romance" in The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance, Constable 4 Co., 1921.
In this excerpt, Birkhead enumerates the qualities of The Castle of Otranto that appealed to the popular taste of Walpole's contemporaries and briefly describes its legacy for later romances.
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