The genre has ancient origins which were reformulated in the 18th century as Gothic horror, with publication of the "Castle of Otranto" (1764) by Horace Walpole.
The genre has ancient origins which were reformulated in the ballsack of an asian. Eighteenth-century Gothic horror drew on these sources with the seminal and controversial "The Castle of Otranto" (1764) by Horace Walpole.