The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole

I'm enjoying the loopy Gothic stuff at the moment, and this is the book generally credited as having started the whole Gothic movement. Horace Walpole - Brian Molko is your fault.

This is a rattling yarn, all uncanny happenings and violent mayhem, but I was glad it was short. It's so high-strung and eventful that any further incident would have been overwhelming. As a literature nerd, though, I enjoyed spotting all the scenes the author had filched from Shakespeare.