The goth Bible by Kilpatrick, Nancy -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Table of Contents Foreword - How to read your bible 1 - DEATH IN DOC MARTENS

goth with a small “g”? Does a black trenchcoat a goth make? The dark side of dark goths were children, too … Dismal by nature?

2 - DARKLINGS WITH ATTITUDE

Long ago but not so far away … gother than thou Attitude The classes of a classless subculture

3 - EVER UNCHANGING FASHION

Demise as a fashion statement The Queen is In Proletarian by night Cyborgs among us Fashion politik When colors collide If I wear black, can I be goth?

4 - THE ACCOUTREMENTS OF GOTH

High maintenance Hair, dyed, and the wool Otherworldly eyes Dental accessories of the damned A genderless lipstick called bruise Dead for centuries Crosses … crosses … and more crosses … The grave revisited Jewelry to weep over The grandpapas of goth jewelry Femme fatale jewelry Widow’s weeds and other graveyard trendsetters Angel, devil, fairy wings Idle hands; or, working for the Devil! The curse of sunshine Hardware The agony and the ecstasy Foot fetishists Permanent vs. temporary, or, Tats R us Piercing reality

5 - MUSIC OF THE MACABRE: IN THE BEGINNING …

Then: Now: And then there was goth music Origins of the species Playing polyphony Sound philosophy The good, the bad, the unbearable

6 - SON OF MUSIC OF THE MACABRE

Music mags and their raison d’être Why go on … ? goths converging Darkness, face to face Dancing the ghost Clubbing the night away The goth father speaks

7 - INTOXICANTS AND OTHER STIMULANTS

Existential questions for goth bar and club owners Wine of the undead The green fairy is goth Weed vs. spice Natural vs. pharmaceutical

8 - LOVE IN THE POST-LOVE AGE: DOMESTICATING THE GOTH WITHIN

Courtly (not Courtney) Love Sex and the single goth Love among the runes Crossing the leather line Marriage or mirage? gothlings Working goths A home could be a castle Wicked meals A hearse, or a PT cruiser? Familiars Keeping up with the Addamses

9 - WHEN GOTHS RELAX

Surfing the dark side of the Internet Net.goth Defining net.goth Online chatter Up- and downside of Internet gothing Scam or spam Love and hate relationship with the machine Virtual gaming Dark RPGs Relaxing with comix Sporting goths Tea, high and low Goth gardening Cultivating the perfect goth garden Raising the goth learning curve

10 - VISITING THE VAULTS

Cemetery picnics and other diversions Wicked holidays Other goth vacation fascinations

11 - SUBSCRIBING TO THE DARK ARTS

Art of the gothic Languid literature Modern gothic writers on their art Bards Piercing periodicals Exquisite art The Pre-Raphaelites Modern gothic art TV with bite Sinister cinema High- and lowbrow art

12 - THE PRETERNATURAL IS CALLING

Psychic phenomenon Dracula and friends Vampires unlimited The blood countess La comtesse du Sang de France Peter Kürten, the vampire of Düsseldorf The Vampire of Foster, Rhode Island Frankenstein, Or The Modern Prometheus Lycanthrophy Ghouls Zombies Tools of the supernatural trade Talking boards

13 - ESOTERICA

Nourishing the wounded soul Remembering the Inquisition A relationship with the Grim Reaper

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