Attaboy quoted The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
This book is the earliest and most influential of the Gothic novels. First published pseudonymously …
[...] Manfred had dispatched all his men various ways in pursuit of Isabella. He had in his hurry given this order in general terms, not meaning to extend it to the guard he had set upon Theodore, but forgetting it.
— The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (Page 64)