The best gothic novels

At the Guardian, Patrick McGrath tagged the best gothic novels.One book that made the grade:Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto (1764)What would become the staples of the genre were introduced in Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto with deliberate fanfare and much hilarity. The setting is medieval and the castle itself is riddled with dungeons, cloisters, secret passages and trapdoors, precisely