{"id":821,"date":"2019-01-24T20:30:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T20:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=821"},"modified":"2019-01-24T20:30:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T20:30:12","slug":"the-first-english-supernatural-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"The first English supernatural novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The Castle of Otranto<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It&#8217;s style merges\u00a0medievalism and terror.\u00a0One of the most influential works of Gothic fiction, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2H15Fof\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Castle of Otranto<\/a> is the first\u00a0English\u00a0supernatural novel.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Strawberry Hill House inspired The Castle of Otranto, which was the first ever Gothic novel. It was written in Horace Walpole&#8217;s study in 1764. A copy of the book is available in the study for visitors to the house to read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It contains knights, wronged maidens, bewitched corridors and creaking floorboards&#8230;..and death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">According to wikipedia, &#8220;<em>i<\/em><em>t blends elements of realist fiction with the supernatural and fantastical, establishing many of the plot devices and character-types that would become typical of the Gothic novel: secret passages, clanging trapdoors, pictures beginning to move, and doors closing by themselves.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-822\" style=\"background-color:initial;text-align:center;\" src=\"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/img_0170.jpg\" alt=\"The Castle of Otranto\" width=\"3648\" height=\"2736\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><a style=\"color:#000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2H15Fof\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Castle of Otranto<\/a> was written at Strawberry Hill House<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The plot<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The story begins on what should be the wedding day of\u00a0Conrad to princess Isabella. However,\u00a0shortly before the wedding, Conrad is crushed to death by a gigantic helmet.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Ominous, huh?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Manfred, Conrad&#8217;s father and lord of the castle,\u00a0certainly thinks so. Especially as there is\u00a0an ancient prophecy that says &#8220;the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">How does he plan to stop the curse? You&#8217;ll have to read the book to find out.\u00a0<sup id=\"cite_ref-9\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_826\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-826\" style=\"width: 165px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a style=\"color:#000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2H15Fof\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-826\" src=\"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/51QAA2SUVnL._SL250_.jpg\" alt=\"The Castle of Otranto A Gothic Story\" width=\"165\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The Castle of Otranto A Gothic Story<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_823\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-823\" style=\"width: 3872px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a style=\"color:#000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/treasurehuntsinlondon.wordpress.com\/2019\/01\/06\/lost-treasures-of-strawberry-hill-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-823\" src=\"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/dsc_4246.jpg\" alt=\"Strawberry Hill House - photo by Juliamaud\" width=\"3872\" height=\"2592\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Strawberry Hill House &#8211; photo by Juliamaud<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Castle of Otranto It&#8217;s style merges\u00a0medievalism and terror.\u00a0One of the most influential works of Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto is the first\u00a0English\u00a0supernatural novel. Strawberry Hill House inspired The Castle of Otranto, which was the first ever Gothic novel. It was written in Horace Walpole&#8217;s study in 1764. A copy of the book is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=821\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The first English supernatural novel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[193,194,195,196,197],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-murder-mystery-books","tag-first-gothic-novel","tag-horace-walpole","tag-strawberry-hill-house","tag-supernatural-novel","tag-the-castle-of-otranto"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The first English supernatural novel - Solve The Murder<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=821\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The first English supernatural novel - Solve The Murder\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Castle of Otranto It&#8217;s style merges\u00a0medievalism and terror.\u00a0One of the most influential works of Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto is the first\u00a0English\u00a0supernatural novel. 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