📖 Gothic fiction launched by a hoax. In 1764 Walpole published The Castle of Otranto as a fake medieval manuscript. Hit. Revealed himself the next year - proudly. His experiment worked. Every haunted castle in fiction followed. Favorite Gothic novel? #WednesdayBookFact #GothicFiction

📖 The Grimms 1812 fairy tales were much darker than what you know. Over 7 editions they softened them. Then Disney. The dark original you’ve heard about? There’s usually an even darker version before it. Which fairy tale would you read in its original form? #WednesdayBookFact #FairyTales

📖 Wednesday Book Fact!

The smell of old books has a name: bibliosmia. That vanilla scent is lignin in the paper breaking down into vanillin - same compound as real vanilla.

Old books or new? #WednesdayBookFact #Bibliosmia #BookSmell