Edgar Allan Poe introduces a castle setting in the very beginning of the story when he states, “The Chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled gloom and grandeur which have so long frowned among the apennines, not less in fact than in the fancy of Mrs. Radcliffe.” ( Poe 1). With this in mind, Edgar Allan Poe uses the first element of gothic literature using the word “Chateau” to describe a castle as in the setting. Poe also uses gothic literature when he says, “The rays of the numerous candles (for there were many) now fell within a niche of the room which had hitherto been thrown into deep
