He did not seem particularly interested in hiding his real participation in the work, since he claimed authorship of the novel in its second edition which was published only a year later. While writing The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole was renovating his house, later known as Strawberry Hill House, to transform it into the Gothic mansion that would inspire the castle in his novel. He writes, “these and other passages are strong presumptions that the author had some certain building in his eye” (Walpole, 1764, p. One of the things he chose to comment on is the castle that gave the novel its title. This first edition of The Castle of Otranto begins with a preface where Walpole reflects on the author’s writing and storytelling choices. Its author, Horace Walpole, used a pseudonym and stated that it was a translation of a manuscript written between 10, during the Crusades “or not long afterwards” (Walpole, 1764, p. It was the year 1764 when The Castle of Otranto was first published.
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