Horace Walpole The genre was invented by Horace Walpole, whose Castle of Otranto (1765) may be said to have founded the horror story as a legitimate literary form.
<span>The rising and falling of the tides happened twice a day and it would cause the water levels around Jamestown to rise and cause freshwater streams and welts to become brackish or salty. There is evidence that this salty water may have made some early settlers sick.</span>
