Gothic fiction
Also foreshadowing Romanticism was Gothic fiction, in works such as Horace Walpole's 1764 novel "The Castle of Otranto". The Gothic fiction genre combines elements of horror and romance. A pioneering Gothic novelist was Ann Radcliffe author of "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (1794). "The Monk" (1796), by Matthew Lewis, is another notable early work in both the Gothic and horror genres.