The Gothic Novel

1. Who inevented the GN?
Horace Walpole
2. What was the first G.N? 
The Castle of Otranto
3. When it was the first published? 
1764
4. Which basic elements of horror didn't you include on your list?
1. Setting in a castle
2. An ancient prophecy
3. Omens, portents, visions
4. Supernatural or otherwise inexplicable events
5. Women in distress
6. Women threatened by a powerful, impulsive, tyrannical male
7. The metonymy of gloom and horror