...the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands and I grew fond of it ... in short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed...

...on the uppermost hanister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. ... In short, I was so engrossed with my Tale, which I completed...

...contains: "... I waked one morning in the beginning of last June, from a dream .... In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands . . . ." This account shows that the message obtained, the future model of so many...

...on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down and began to write without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it — add that I was very glad to think of anything rather than...

...the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate."1 Here, at the beginning point of English gothic fiction, Horace Walpole joined the experience...

...on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands and I grew fond of it.3 By locating the origin of a Gothic story in a dream, Walpole...

...keeping with Walpole's repeated characterization of Otranto as ajeu d'esprit, written hurriedly and begun "without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate" (see Walpole to William Cole, 9 March 1785, Correspondence, 1: 88). 98. Smollett, Ferdinand Count Fathom,...

...the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I wanted to say or relate.16 And Mary Shelley, in her 1831 Preface to Frankenstein, describes how the...

...the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. Ook in andere brieven (om aan Rev. William Mason) biedt hij ahw zijn excuses aan voor de haast waarin...

...on the upper banister of the great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.' Walpole to the Rev. William Cole, 9 March 1765, cited in Introduction to The Castle ofOtranto, ed....