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Quote Originally Posted by Robert Adam Gilmour

Walpole's Castle Of Otranto? That book has a really bad reputation but I've heard some people recommending his comedic writing.

I'd say the difference between Walpole and Radcliffe is that with Walpole you're still awake to catch all the soap opera dialogue and leaps in logic. With that warning, however, I still found the Castle of Otranto enjoyable for the same reasons that I like any of Fulci's movies; they seem to fail by any analysis of what makes a book/film good, but as a whole they hang together like bizarre dreams and seem a bit more disturbing because of it.