Pascual Pérez y Rodríguez (Valencia, 1804-1868), writer and photographer, contributed to improving the state of our letters at the beginning of the 19th century. His status as a priest did not prevent him from carrying out fruitful work as a promoter of new literary ideas.
He published works of different and varied themes, founded El Diario Mercantil (1833-1844) with Father Juan Arolas and Pedro Sabater and trained numerous disciple writers as a professor of Humanities. With these data, together with the constant search for editorial success, it is not surprising that he decided to cultivate the Gothic novel, since apart from The Bloody Urn he also published The Gothic Tower or The Spectrum of Limberg (1831) and The Invisible Man or The Ruins of Munsterhall (1833).