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Otranto Castle

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A book full of mysticism, secrets, and riddles. A curse placed on the line of Prince Manfred leads to the horrific death of the heir. Desperate, Manfred attempts to cheat fate by committing new crimes.

"The Castle of Otranto" is a work that pioneered the Gothic novel genre. A medieval castle, an ominous prophecy, vengeful ghosts, and fatal secrets—Walpole masterfully blends the real and the supernatural. Even the first edition was a hoax: Walpole passed off the novel as a translation of an ancient Italian text found in Otranto. But in the preface to the second edition, he admitted his authorship.

The story of the tyrant Manfred, struggling to cling to power, begins with the death of his son, crushed by a giant helmet, and devolves into a nightmare where the fate of the living is determined by the dark past.
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