Horace Walpole

Thomas Love Peacock

William Beckford

Three classic Gothic novels: Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey and William Beckford's Vathek

Vathek and Nightmare Abbey

The Castle of Otranto

Abigail Mills

The next transition of his soul was to exquisite villainy. 

A bad husband is better than no husband at all. 

A by-stander often sees more of the game than those that play, answered Bianca. Does your

Seize him, continued Manfred, and bind him - the first news the princess hears of her champion shall be, that he has lost his head for her sake. 

Is my honesty the price I must pay for this dear youth's safety?

 For me! cried Theodore: let me die a thousand deaths, rather than stain thy conscience. 

It is sinful, replied the friar, to cherish those whom heaven has doomed to destruction. A tyrant's race must be swept from the earth to the third and fourth generation. 

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