Gothicism's origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled " A Gothic Story ".

The Castle of Otranto ( 1764 ) is usually regarded as the first Gothic novel.

Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto ( 1764 ) is often regarded as the first true Gothic romance.

** Matilda in The Castle of Otranto – She is determined to give up Theodore, the love of her life, for her cousin ’ s sake.

** Theodore in The Castle of Otranto – he is witty, and successfully challenges the tyrant, saves the virginal maid without expectations

** Manfred in The Castle of Otranto – unjustly accuses Theodore of murdering Conrad.

** Bianca in The Castle of Otranto – a gossip, helps characters get valuable news, provides comic relief

** Diego and Jaquez in The Castle of Otranto – they appear to talk about random things, and argue foolishly with each other in order to lighten the air of the novel.

** Father Jerome in The Castle of Otranto – Jerome, though not evil, is certainly weak as he gives up his son when he is born and leaves his lover.

The importance of setting is noted in a London review of the Castle of Otranto, “ He describes the country towards Otranto as desolate and bare, extensive downs covered with thyme, with occasionally the dwarf holly, the rosa marina, and lavender, stretch around like wild moorlands … Mr. Williams describes the celebrated Castle of Otranto as “ an imposing object of considerable size … has a dignified and chivalric air.

This trend of using Gothic architecture began with the Castle of Otranto and was to become a major element of the genre from that point forward.

The buildings in the Castle of Otranto, for example, are riddled with underground tunnels, which the characters use to move back and forth in secret.

In literature, Gothic novel combines dark elements of both horror and romance: English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto is one of the first writers who explored this genre.

The genre has ancient origins which were reformulated in the eighteenth century as Gothic horror, with publication of the Castle of Otranto ( 1764 ) by Horace Walpole.

* Horace Walpole-The Castle of Otranto " a story, translated by William Marshal, Gent., from the original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto ", the first Gothic novel

The immense, overwhelming presence of Gormenghast Castle ; its ' umbrageous ceilings ', its ' empire of red rust ' and the way in which it shapes and deforms the personalities of those who dwell in and under it, marks Gormenghast out as one of the great Gothic edifices, as Hill House in Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House or Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto.

Otranto is the setting of Horace Walpole's book, The Castle of Otranto, which is generally held to be the first gothic novel.

Horace Walpole's 1764 novel, The Castle of Otranto, invented the Gothic fiction genre.

But what is equally impressive is the delicacy and wonderful lyric quality of both the band and Mulligan's baritone sax in a fragile ballad like Bob Brookmeyer's arrangement of `` Django's Castle ''.

Grace O ' Malley's Castle Kildamhnait Castle is a 15th century tower house associated with the O ' Malley Clan, who were once a ruling family of Achill.

Another small oil on parchment, Danube Landscape with Castle Wörth ( c. 1520 ) is one of the earliest accurate topographical paintings of a particular building in its setting, of a type that was to become a cliché in later centuries.

The Ascanians are named after Ascania ( or Ascaria ) Castle, Schloss Askanien, which is located near and named after Aschersleben.

Aberdour Castle is now in the care of Historic Scotland and open to the public ( entrance charge ).

Balmoral Castle is a large estate house in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Balmoral Castle is built from granite quarried at Invergelder on the estate, and comprises two main blocks, each arranged around a courtyard.

At the south-east is a tall clock tower topped with turrets, one of which has a balustrade similar to a feature at Castle Fraser.

Craigowan Lodge is used regularly by the Queen's friends and family, and has also been used by the Queen while Balmoral Castle is being prepared.

The aim is to carry the ball from the " Salting Pool " via the old A30, along Callywith Road, then through Castle Street, Church Square and Honey Street to finish at the Turret Clock in Fore Street.

The island town hosts a range of attractions including the Castle Coole Estate and Enniskillen Castle, which is home to the museum of The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards.

52 rifle is used as ceremonial weapon by Prague Castle Guard.

Castle of the Winds ( CotW ) is a tile-based roguelike video game for Windows 3. x.

The earliest known reference to croquet in Scotland is the booklet called The Game of Croquet, its Laws and Regulations which was published in the mid-1860s for the proprietor of Eglinton Castle, the Earl of Eglinton.

On the page facing the title page is a picture of Eglinton Castle with a game of " croquet " in full swing.

* Gradačac Castle is a citadel, also a palace of Husein " Dragon Of Bosnia " Gradaščević who was a renowned 19th-century military Bosnian Captain, overlooking the historic core of Gradačac-National monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina

This now is identified as Barbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort in Wiltshire, near Swindon.

Although killing oneself is forbidden under normal Jewish law as being a denial of God's goodness in the world, under extreme circumstances when there has seemed no choice but to either be killed or forced to betray their religion, Jews have committed suicide or mass suicide ( see Masada, First French persecution of the Jews, and York Castle for examples ).

Despite its small size ( roughly from its northernmost to southernmost points ), there is significant variation in mean temperature and amount of snowfall between Sussex County and New Castle County.

The center of population of Delaware is located in New Castle County, in the town of Townsend.

The port was used as the sailing point for the Crusades of 1147 and 1190, and a creek close to Dartmouth Castle is supposed by some to be named for the vast fleets which assembled there ( Warfleet Creek ).

Harman Blennerhassett ( 8 October 1764 – 2 February 1831 ) was an Irish-American lawyer, born in Castle Conway in County Kerry, Ireland, to Conway Blennerhassett and Elizabeth Lacy.

* Gatehouse Kimbolton Castle ( c. 1764 )

* Castle Hill, 1764, Albemarle County -- home of Thomas Walker ( explorer ) and William Cabell Rives

Manfred's name was borrowed by the English author Horace Walpole for the main character of his short novel The Castle of Otranto ( 1764 ).

Thomas Knight ( 1697 – 1764 ) and nephew and heir of Richard Knight ( 1693 – 1765 ) of Croft Castle.

His 1763 – 1764 survey of the Delaware-Pennsylvania border was a 12-mile circle about the Court House in New Castle, Delaware, to define the northern border of Delaware.

The initial 1764 edition was titled in full The Castle of Otranto, A Story.

During the reign of Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last Polish monarch, from 1764 to the third partition of Poland in 1795, the Royal Castle went through a period of greatness.

The 4th Duke Ernest Frederick ( 1724 – 1800 ) was the last to be born in Saalfeld ; in 1764, he moved the capital from Saalfeld to Coburg, where in 1805 his son and heir Duke Francis ( 1750 – 1806 ) would buy Rosenau Castle as his residence.

In addition to this, the sombre and sweeping tone of his Meditations Among The Tombs ( for example, " the dreadful pleasure inspired by gazing at fallen monuments and mouldering tombs ") has led to his being placed amongst the 18th Century ' Graveyard School ' of poets, rendering his work an important influence on Horace Walpole ’ s ' The Castle of Otranto ' of 1764 and consequently, the entire genre of Gothic Literature and the later Romanticism which the genre fuelled.

* John Bond ( 1717 – 1784 ), British Member of Parliament for Corfe Castle, 1727 – 1761 and 1764 – 1780

His originality lay in combining the popular Oriental elements with the Gothic stylings of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto ( 1764 ).

This work described the fascination with supernatural fiction in English literature from the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto in 1764 to Charles Maturin's ' Melmoth the Wanderer ' in 1820 on to modern times.

In 1764, the estate of Castle Eden was purchased by Rowland Burdon from William Turner, in which the deeds describe a pathway passing a ruined medieval chapel across a bridge and through the village leading up to the ruined manor and castle.

Castle Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany (), was built as a hunting lodge between 1764 and 1769 under Duke Karl Eugen of Württemberg.

One of the first literary results of this fascinations was Gothic novel, a literary genre that began in Britain with The Castle of Otranto ( 1764 ) by Horace Walpole.

* Sir Thomas Turton, 1st Baronet of Starborough Castle, Surrey ( 1764 – 1844 ), MP for Southwark 1806 – 1812

Beginning with Castle of Otranto ( 1764 ) by Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, it also included Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ) and John Polidori's The Vampyre ( 1819 ), which helped found the modern horror genre.