Furthermore, Jerome is appalled when the protagonist tells him that he plans to divorce Hippolita to marry a much younger woman.
In one scene of this story, a clothed skeleton appears to man and in another, a mark of a bloody arrow under a shoulder of a character indicates that he is the son of a priest. Father Jerome's realization spawns an offer to spare a the life of a peasant who was accused of magic. Furthermore, Jerome is appalled when the protagonist tells him that he plans to divorce Hippolita to marry a much younger woman. Later, a hundred men carry a (*) gigantic sword with an important engraving on it. Those men are led by Marquis Frederic, who is revealed to be the father of the aforementioned younger woman. Supernatural events dominate this novel, including a statue that has a nosebleed and an enormous helmet that fatally falls on a fifteen year old boy. That character, Conrad, was supposed to usurp the protagonist with his marriage to Isabella. Theodore takes control of the titular Sicilian locale from the power hungry Manfred in, for ten points, what first Gothic novel, the best known work of Horace Walpole?
In one scene of this story, a clothed skeleton appears to man and in another, a mark of a bloody arrow under a shoulder of a character indicates that he is the son of a priest.
The {Castle} of {Otranto}