Today's episode is on Horace Walpole, 18th century man of letters and writer of the world's first gothic novel. This episode features a number of firsts for Queer As Fact, including our first possible asexual person, and the first Queer As Fact Historical Goth-Off!
Transcript available here
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(Image: Portrait of Horace Walpole by Pierre Subleyras, via Wikimedia Commons)
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