Wikipedia: Gothic novel

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The Gothic novel can be said to have been born with "[The Castle of Otranto]?" by Horace Walpole.

Prominent features of many gothic novels are mystery, doom, decay, old buildings with ghosts in them, madness hereditary curses and so on.