Pope Francis canonises saints, including Mother Teresa and Devasahayam Pillai, with historical controversies in canonisation ...

Horror disappoints eventually. Just a few years before the publication of Horace Walpole’s “The Castle of Otranto” (1764), the first proper horror novel, the philosopher Edmund Burke laid ...

Purporting to be translated from an earlier manuscript, The Castle of Otranto introduces what have become classic Gothic devices, such as a foreign location, a dark and ominous castle and a naïve ...

The term Gothic first became linked to literature with Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, later subtitled A Gothic Story. This term was probably given because of the book's ...

Although Gothic architecture has been around since the Middle Ages, the subgenres of gothic romance did not spawn until the ...