The Book of Thoth is a Gothic novel, isn't it?

From The Guardian Books section: How to tell you're reading a gothic novel – in pictures

My second book, The Book of Thoth, is inspired by the classic genre of the Gothic novel. Before I started, I printed a few documents listing the characteristics needed for a story to classify for the "Gothic novel" tag. 
I've regularly had a look at the list of conventions pinned onto my noticeboard as I planned and wrote TBOT. Let's count, shall we? 

OK, so here they are:
--wild landscapes  (Kind of, does the Somerset countryside count?)

--remote or exotic locales (Does Somerset qualify? Oh, hang on, I mention Egypt. Is that ok?) 

--dimly lit, gloomy settings  (There's plenty of those in TBOT!)

--ruins or isolated crumbling castles or mansions (later cities and houses)  (Yes, yes, and yes)

--crypts, tombs  (Oh, yes! An Egyptian-style mausoleum and a sarcophagus)

--dungeons, torture chambers  (Well, there's a tower. No torture, though...)

--dark towers, hidden rooms  (Tower? Check. Hidden rooms? Dozens...)

--secret corridors/passageways  (Loads)

--dream states or nightmares  (YES!)

--found manuscripts or artifacts  (CHECK!)

--ancestral curses  (Yes, a terrifying Ancient Egyptian one!)

--family secrets  (Indeed)

--damsels in distress (Two. Hang on, one is a flapper, so not in distress at all!) 

--marvellous or mysterious creatures, monsters, spirits, or strangers (Of course!) 

--enigmatic figures with supernatural powers  (YES! Several ones!)

--scientific tone (fantastic events observed empirically)  (TICK. A rational character, and a scientist and scholar, although the latter is also an alchemist)

--specific reference to noon, midnight, twilight (the witching hours)  (All the time!)

--use of traditionally "magical" numbers such as 3, 7, 13  (NO! oops!)

--unnatural acts of nature (blood-red moon, sudden fierce wind, etc.) (YES, quite a few!)


OK, so only one convention that doesn't appear in my novel. Not bad, eh? 
But maybe I should double-check... The Guardian Books has just posted a fun little guide to the Gothic Novel. 
So if you'll excuse me, I am off to check whether The Book of Thoth definitively fits the genre! 

Tomorrow, I am off to the Whitstable Literary festival to attend their event "British Gothic: a macabre evening with Christopher Fowler and Barry Forshaw".