A Gothic Map of the World

The Surrealists in the 1920s produced a map of the world showing lands and nations not as
they were geographically, but according to how they inspired Surrealist ideas: so Europe
virtually disappeared and Papua New Guinea was as big as the whole of North America. We've
done something similar here. Whereas the monks of the Middle Ages put Jerusalem at the
centre of the world, in our Gothic world Venice is at the middle ...
What is this fool on about?
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Alexandria
The Alps
The Amazon
America
Australia
Barcelona
Calcutta
China
The Congo
Constantinople
Delphi
East Germany
Edinburgh
Egypt
England
Ethiopia
Florence
Haiti
India
Italy
Japan
Jerusalem
Java
Karnak
London
Madrid
Mexico
New York
The Nile
Norway
Ottoman Empire
Oxford
Paris
Peru
Petra
Portmeirion
The Rhine
Romania
Rome
Russia
Siberia
Spain
Tibet
Venice
Vesuvius
Whitby
The great burned library; gateway to lost worlds; city of mysteries and magic
Landscape of drama and fear for 18th-century gentlemen poets
Lost tribes, wierd gods, monstrous beasts lurking in the rainforest
Not much to be honest, apart from the South (lynchings, scent of magnolia, Faulkner, Poe and doom) and New England (Hawthorne, witches at Salem, Sleepy Hollow)
An utter blank apart from strange goings-on at Hanging Rock
Gaudi - bizarre buildings looking as though they've been grown from bones, slime, and rotting veg
A Black Hole. Thuggees, Kali Ma, and murder cults
Torture Gardens and exquisite means of death
Heart of Darkness, the journey to the human race's primitive core (racist, perhaps, but don't blame Conrad, or me)
Gateway to the Orient, meetingplace of jarring cultures, domes, minnarets, opium and white slavers
The Oracle breathes in those volcanic fumes, cackles, and prophesies your doom
Industrial ruin, political tyranny, decay and decline - lots of (rather threatening) Goths
Cemeteries, underground chambers, Dr Jekyll, ghosts and puritans. Round the stair wi' Burke an' Hare!
Unimaginable antiquity, strange cults, cruel pharoahs, tomb robbers and mummies
An entire haunted landscape of ruins, headless ghosts, spectral beings, rather graphic placenames, and the birthplace of properly Gothic sensibility in its writers and artists
The Coptic Church is pretty wierd, isn't it? Oh, and the Prester John legends as well
The Medici knew all about art and death
You may run into Baron Samedi at the crossroads
Lush, temples in the wet forest, twenty-armed goddesses being dangerous, filthy holy men
Plots, murders, delicate assassinations, Macchiavelli, Dante, Salvator Rosa, and good light for drawing
Anime, manga, red-black-white colour schemes; will it be a beheading, sir?
Actually east of Krakatoa, you know
Three great religions jostling in the streets, and Christian monks squabbling over roofspace
The Temple of Amun - the statue waiting in its dark sanctuary over the waters
Layer on layer of corpses, cramped lanes, Jack the Ripper, Doré; fog, fog, fog
Lewis's The Monk, mysterious monasteries
From the Day of the Dead to Sergio Leoni
Gotham, if you like; not so Gothic since about 1935
'The murmurs of the fallen creeds, like winds among the wind-shaken reeds, along the banks of holy Nile'
Lots of EuroGoths here. We're told.
We do not recognise the state of Turkey, but think of the Sultan reclining on perfumed cushions, giving orders to the Bashi Bazouks to despatch another few hundred Greek peasants
Forbidden learning, arcane rites, Philip Pullman, black arts and Anglo-Catholicism
Notre Dame de ...
The Incas were more bloodthirsty than used to be thought
Ah, rose-red city half as old as time
A lunatic's fantasy assemblage, bouncy balls on the beach and Siouxsie on the terrace
Castles, black forests, a dark artery pulsing into Europe's heart
Here Be Vampires
Dining with the Borgias? For the first time, we assume
Stretches to the east apparently without end until you get to the Mongol Hordes
Wrap up warm, we're off to the Gulag
Superstition, bullfights, Goya, Valdes Leal, civil war: Viva la Muerte!
Does anyone know what lies in the mountain snows? The lamas aren't telling
Don't Look Know, the Council of Ten, the Bridge of Sighs, funereal gondolas slipping down canals - the City of Death above all others
Europe's own little glimpse of what Hell must be like
Abbey on the hilltop, Goths in the pub
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