Halloween Countdown 2024, Day 3

We have even more evidence of which Gothic novels the women who worked in 19th-century mills in Lowell, Massachusetts read and enjoyed. The next few posts will highlight these titles.

The Oxford World Classics edition of The Castle of Otranto with artwork depicting a bowed figure in grief.ALT

One of the most popular titles was The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (1764).

Read it here.

Quote:  …and then the figure, turning slowly round, discovered to Frederic the fleshless jaws and empty sockets of a skeleton, wrapt in a hermit’s cowl.

“Angels of peace protect me!” cried Frederic, recoiling.

“Deserve their protection!” said the spectre.

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Published on October 03, 2024 04:08
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