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It's a week of spookiness on automatism, in anticipation of Hallowe'en on Friday... so sprinkled here and there over the next few days will be the odd post with a Gothic note (Gothic as in 18th and 19th century gothic fiction, with the requisite eerie castles, blasted landscapes and haunted heroines). Who's that tap tapping at my door? (Photo via ? — if you know, please let me know)