| OTRANTO | The Castle of -, Gothic novel by Horace Walpole |
| NORTHANGERABBEY | Jane Austen's satire of Gothic novels (10,5) |
| CASTLE | The ___ of Otranto gothic novel by Horace Walpole which tells the story of Manfred and his family |
| THECASTLE | 1764 novel by Horace Walpole (3,6,2,7) |
| OFOTRANTO | 1764 novel by Horace Walpole (3,6,2,7) |
| THECASTLEOFOTRANTO | 1764 novel by Horace Walpole |
| SERENDIPITY | Word, coined by Horace Walpole, for the faculty of making fortunate or happy discoveries by accident (11) |
| KENT | 'Garden of England', site of the 'castle of queens, queen of castles' and much of the North Downs (4) |
| DORIAN | The Picture of ___ Gray gothic novel by Oscar Wilde which tells the story of a man and his unusual portrait |
| WALPOLE | Horace -; author of The Castle of Otranto who lived at the Gothic revival villa Strawberry Hill (7) |
| HORACEWALPOLE | Author of the novel The Castle of Otranto (6,7) |
| DRACULA | Gothic novel by Bram Stoker which tells the story of a vampire on the loose |
| CAITHNESS | Historic county in Scotland's north, site of the Castle of Mey, a former residence of the Queen Mother (9) |
| RHAPSODY | "Have done with this ____ of impertinence" (Walpole, The Castle of Otranto) |
| NANTES | French city containing the castle of the dukes of Brittany (6) |
| GIBBONS | Creator of the Carved Room at Petworth House and of a lime-wood cravat so realistic that its former owner Sir Horace Walpole wore it to greet visitors at Strawberry Hill (7) |
| ERIK | Name of the phantom in a gothic novel by French author Gaston Leroux (4) |
| HUNCHBACK | The --- Of Notre-Dame, French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831 (9) |
| BLACK | 1983 gothic novel by Susan Hill, The Woman In _ (5) |
| FRANKENSTEIN | ---; Or, The Modern Prometheus, 1818 Gothic novel by Mary Shelley (12) |
