ancestor of one of the characters suddenly beginning to bleed, the vision of giant hands, etc. 1 The author, immersed in the dark and mysterious details of the descriptions, provides in this work the idea of a fatal retribution falling on the children for the sins and crimes of their ancestors. The following work of Walpole's The Mysterious Mother (1768) tried to establish the genre of horror and mystery in a drama. It was, however, it was not delivered.