奥特朗托城堡
The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole · 初版 1764 年
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本书是哥特小说中最早且最具影响力的一部。The Castle of Otranto 于1764年以假名首次出版，声称是一部十字军东征时期的意大利故事译作。沃尔波尔（Walpole）在第二版序言中宣称，他试图在其中“融合古代与现代两种传奇小说类型”。他为读者呈现了一连串灾祸、鬼魂干预、身份揭秘与扣人心弦的较量。这部小说充满创意、娱乐性、恐惧与感伤，一经问世便大获成功，也是沃尔波尔众多作品中他自己最钟爱的一部……
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霍勒斯·沃尔波尔的《奥特兰托堡》（The Castle of Otranto）是一本搞笑般有趣的书。篇幅很短，充斥着狗血情节（melodrama）。我那本附带了尼克·格鲁姆（Nick Groom）写的极佳导读，介绍了哥特式建筑、文学和政治，比这深入多了……
Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" is a ridiculously fun book. Very short, and stuffed with melodrama. My copy has an excellent introduction to Gothic architecture, literature, and politics by Nick Groom, which goes much deeper than this…
……1839 年的《厄舍府的倒塌》（The Fall of the House of Usher）、1842 年的《红死病的假面舞会》（The Masque of the Red Death），以及 1838 年的《丽姬娅》（Ligeia）。彼时，哥特风流派早已风生水起，霍勒斯·沃尔波尔早在 1764 年就出版了经典之作《奥特兰托堡》（The Castle of Otranto）。安·拉德克利夫（哥特文学之母）也在 1794 年出版了《尤多芙的奥秘》（The Mysteries of Udolpho），而且早在爱伦·坡动笔写作前，它就在 1817 年被简·奥斯汀的《诺桑觉寺》恶搞吐槽过了……
…"The Fall of the House of Usher" in 1839, "The Masque of the Red Death" in 1842, and "Ligeia" in 1838. By then, the Gothic genre was well under way, with Horace Walpole having published the classic The Castle of Otranto in 1764. Ann Radclife (the mother of the Gothic) had published The Mysteries of Udolpho in 1794 and it was already parodied by Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey in 1817, long before Poe even started writing…
沃尔波尔的《奥特兰托堡》（Castle of Otranto）到底算不算第一部恐怖小说还不确定，但不管怎么说，它比《弗兰肯斯坦》早了整整 53 年。
It's unclear if Walpole's Castle of Otranto is the first horror, but in any case it predates Frankenstein by 53 years.
这篇文章其实根本没说什么你自己猜不到的东西：也就是电影里反复出现的关联。它确实暗示了一本书（《奥特兰托堡》/ Castle of Otranto），可能是某个睡在哥特复兴式宅邸里的人写出来的，从而（极有可能）开启了这种联想，但它并没有真正把书和电影串联在一起，两者可能完全是独立事件。我觉得结论大概是：去住一晚试试吧，它们……
The article didn't really say anything you wouldnt guess yourself: repeated association in cinema. It does hint at a book that maybe just maybe started the association (Castle of Otranto) from someone who slept in a Gothic revived house, but really doesn't tie the book or cinema together and they could have been independent events. I think the conclusion is: try sleeping in one, they're…
>那段时期出版的另一部重要文学作品出自沃尔波尔（Watpole，原文笔误）本人之手。据报道，他的小说《奥特兰托堡》（Castle of Otranto）灵感来自于他在草莓山庄（Strawberry Hill）居住时做的一个梦。这部史诗巨作以中世纪的一座城堡为背景，详述了一位领主及其家人在一座闹鬼宅邸中的生活。“在18世纪末……
>Other important literature that was published during this time was work by Watpole himself. His novel, Castle of Otranto, was reportedly inspired by a dream he had while living at Strawberry Hill. Set in a castle in the Middle Ages, the epic details a lord and his family living in a haunted mansion. “In the late 18th and…