I’ve decided this should be my Year for the Reading of the Gothic Classics.  I was watching Van Helsing the other day with my “I’ve studied Gothic novels” mother, who was disapproving that I have read none.  So the list contains:

Frankenstein

Dracula

Northanger Abbey

The Monk

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

… I think there were others, but that will do for now.  I also wonder if I should reallymake good my classicist pretenstions, and read some classic classics too – starting with Metamorphoses.  At least I have read Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argo, and Iliad and Odyssey; that makes the classic classics not such a huge job.