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The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole

Form
Form Novella
Year
Year 1764
Pages
Pages 130

A giant helmet falls from nowhere and kills a prince's son on his wedding day, so the prince tries to marry the dead boy's bride himself, while a walking portrait and a colossal armored ghost gather to end his stolen reign.

almost buried under an enormous helmet, an hundred times more large than any casque ever made for human being
The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole

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