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Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 376 - A Crawling Shape

In this episode, I would like to slightly change the subject to early Gothic novels such as The Castle of Otrano - literature that most scholars believed influenced Edgar Poe’s works.

Ah, Mr. Bartley - I know that some scholars have said that I must have been familiar with the The Castle of Otranto from 1764, which many have said was the first Gothic novel,and influenced such individuals as Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley, whose works I greatly admired and even referenced. My own Gothic tales, such as The Fall of the House of Usher, share thematic and stylistic elements with Walpole’s work, including haunted settings, supernatural events, and psychological terror.

Ah yes, Mr. Poe - what about E.T.A. Hoffman?

Ah, Mr. Bartley, Mr. Hoffman definitely influenced my works - due to his
use of first-person narratives and exploration of madness, align with techniques pioneered in Otranto.  And I must point out how Otranto’s Gothic tropes - —haunted castles, doomed aristocrats, and supernatural 

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