The Castle of Otranto : A Gothic Story (Original World's Classics) (Paperback)

from SheReadsNovels

When I first opened this book I was confronted by page after page of almost continuous text with virtually no paragraph breaks and no quotation marks or any way of marking when one person stops speaking and the next begins. This made it difficult to follow the dialogue but otherwise the story is ...

from madepercy

This book must be read in the knowledge that it is more than 250 years old. It is the original Gothic fiction. The story is somewhat gripping, although the dialogue is not punctuated as we would now expect, making you think twice about who is saying what at times. The spectre of the giant knight ...

from classyhomemaker

Sunday, November 15, 2020 I'm a bit ashamed...but not too much. This book is 106 pages long. I abandoned it on page 80. I just couldn't do it anymore. He lost me about page 50 and I kept falling asleep after a few minutes of trying to muddle through. I got sick of wasting evenings so figured I'd...

from Juva

The most overwrought piece of melodrama I've ever read. Fainting maidens, ghostly apparitions, evil princes, long-lost sons, dark prophecies - this book has really got it all.

from Cecrow

The original gothic novel, this reads preposterously if you don't know its pedigree. Gigantic elements of armour appear in the story without warning (though they are warnings in themselves), crushing the hapless and frightening other characters who respond as anyone might when faced with such ine...