InterActiveNovels: The Castle Of Otranto
The tourist guide showed me the interior of the Otranto Castle. I asked to show me the trapdoor described in the gothic novel The Castle of Otranto, and with a haughty voice told me that such a trapdoor existed only in the novel. At this point I decided to immerse myself in the novel, and behold, I was in front of a painting of Saint Nicholas. I looked at it very intensely, and at some point a friar told me if he could explain the painting, I accepted. The friar was Jerome, in his eyes I saw a staunch devotion, he told me that Saint Nicholas, he was the bishop of the catholic church. Being rich he gave three poor girls his money, to pay the costs of a marriage. The church smelled of incense and wood, there were lots of lit candles, and what about the drafts? which, playing with the shadows, created disturbing geometric figures. In a calm voice I asked the friar to confess to me, very kindly he pointed me to the confessional, and here is the trapdoor right under my feet. After the con
