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The Gothic novel born with the "Caslte of Otranto" by Orace Walpole.
The fine taste for mistery, fear and imagination si strictly connected with the English romantic period (Coleridge)
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.

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