Horrid Mysteries - A Story from the German of the Marquis of Grosse - Paperbackby Carl Grosse (Author), Peter Will (Translator) Gothic fiction is a genre of literature that usually combines fiction with horror, romance, and death. The genre's origin is attributed to the novel, "The Castle of Otranto", which was written by English author Horace Walpole and first published in 1764. "The Horrid Mysteries" is the English translation by Peter Will of the German Gothic novel "Der Genius by Carl Grosse". It was notably one of the seven