• Longsword, Earl of Salisbury Thomas Leland (1762) This historical fiction develops some of the elements of setting and style found in future gothic novels.
• The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole (1764) The first full-fledged English gothic novel.
• The Champion of Virtue/The Old English Baron Clara Reeves (1777) This gothic novel attempts to bring the excesses of The Castle of Otranto within the realm of reason.
• The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe (1794)
• Frankenstein Mary Shelley (1818)
• Northanger Abbey Jane Austen (1818) Austen's parody of Gothic fiction.
• The Vampyre John Polidori (1819) One of the earliest vampire stories written in England.
• Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë (1847) and Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë (1847) These classics draw upon many of the gothic elements found in earlier works.
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
• Dracula Bram Stoker (1897)

Misc.

Piercings

• right eyebrow, horizontal
• nose piercing
• ✔ nips
• ear cartilage piercings x4, one ear ✔1 _2 _3 _4)
• ear lobe piercings x3, both ears (✔1 _2 _3)

Tattoos

• dragon
• ✔ ghost
• ball of yarn
• "some men die under the mountain just looking for gold; some die looking for a hand to hold"

• Finish a colorwork knitting project.
• Try some new veggies, damn it.
• Get a second tattoo.
• Another piercing.
• Write more.
• Knit 2-3 pairs of socks.
• Read 25 books, minimum.
• Finish German DuoLingo skill tree.
• Calligraphy/really nice handwriting.
• Stop wearing leggings & T-shirts every damn day.

See

• London
• All the rest of England
• Scotland
• Ireland
• Germany (again)
• Austria (again)
• Alaska (again)
• Hawaii (again)
• ✔ California
• Norway
• Holland
• Sweden

Live

• Switzerland
• England
• Iceland

• Edgar Allan Poe
• Freddie Mercury

SCOTLAND

• Black Rock Gorge (Evanton)
  • the rocky landscape where Harry faces the Hungarian Horntail in Goblet of Fire
• Clachaig Gully (Glencoe)
  • where Hagrid's Hut was placed from the third film and thereafter
• The Elephant House (Edinburgh)
  • cafe where JK Rowling used to write whilst she lived at her sister's
• Glenfinnan Viaduct (Lochaber)
  • part of a route from Fort William to Mallaig that's possible to take from May to October, here
  • the Viaduct is shown in the sequence wherein Harry and Ron fly on the Ford Anglia to Hogwarts