About the Author

Horace Walpole (1717 - 97), first son of the first Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, was an English historian, politician and writer. He revived the Gothic style of architecture decades before the Victorians, and penned the proto-Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto.

Reviews

'By turns lurid, sensational and amusing, this eighteenth-century gothic romance remains a tour de force' The Guardian 'Containing a Harry Potter-like array of animated portraits, supernatural adventures in vaults and cellars and astonishing, inexplicable events' The Telegraph