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Hallowe'en Challenge - my progress

 I may or may not have managed to complete the requisite number of clauses; however I will complete the requisite number within the next couple of days. This blog post is to document what I've achieved so far. Read a Gothic novel: I struggled to find a book for this that I hadn't already read, and that I owned. I started to read Dracula , which I have read before; I then realised that it was going to take me longer than a month to read it all, as I've got into a habit of reading as a way to calm down and relax before bed. The result of this is that I'm so relaxed, I only manage to read a couple of pages before I get very sleepy. I then looked around for a copy of The Yellow Wallpaper  - I was sure that I had a copy, but couldn't find it anywhere. I used to have a book that was an anthology of classic tales - it included full stories, but also parts of stories - and was printed on very thin paper, much like the paper used for bibles. I thought I had one and that my s...