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Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto turned architecture into horror’s greatest weapon

Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto turned architecture into horror’s greatest weapon

Threateningly ill-defined buildings, enough for our imagination to fill in the gaps, seem to be the ideal catalyst to spark terror.

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Peter Nelson Lindfield