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The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole · first published 1764

Spot the edition: Title page: subtitle is 'a story', with no 'Gothic', and the imprint names Lownds only; the second edition reads 'a Gothic story' and adds Bathoe to the imprint (first edition)

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