The GN was invented by Horace Walpole by having written "The castle of Ortano" in 1764.
It has some characteristic elements such as:
- Using a haunted castle as the main place
- Playing with suspense and mystery
- An ancient prophecy
- omens, portents, visions,...
- Supernatural or otherwise unexplicable events
- High, even overwrought emotion
- Women in distress
- Women threatened by a powerful, impulsive, tyrannical male
- The metonymy of gloom and horror
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