The gothic novel

-Who invented the G.N?
The Gothci novel was invented by Horace Walpole
-What was the first G.N?
The fisrt G.N was The Castle of Otranto
-When it first published?
In the  1764
-Wisc basic elements of horror didn't you inlcude on your list?
·Setting in a castle
·An ancient prophecy
 ·Omens, portents, visions
·Supernatural or otherwise inexplicable events
·Women in distress
·Women threatened by a powerful, impulsive
·Tyrannical male and the metonymy of gloom and horror