...the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic band in armour. In the evening I . . . began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew . . . in short I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that...

...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 - add that I was very glad to think of anything rather than...

...the uppermost bannister of a great staircase 1 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— 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. 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." That was how The Castle ofOtranto was conceived. One night I woke from a deep, dreamless sleep and,...

...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 ... retracing with any fidelity [I could muster] the manners...

...uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour." Later that evening, Walpole "sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to sav or relate. A classic was born. HORACE WALPOLE Horace Walpole was the third son of the prominent...

...on the uppermost banister 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 ..." 14• Piranesi engraved his Carceri in Rome in 1745, heralding the whole Romantic movement or...

...the "uppermost bannister" of an "ancient castle" 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" (9 March 1765, in Correspondence, 1:88). The giant things...

...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."40 As Devendra P. Varma points out in The Gothic Flame, "The ingredient of fear creeps in only...