Foreword: How to read your bible -- 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? -- Darklings with attitude -- Long ago but not so far away ... -- Gother than thou -- Attitude -- The classes of a classless subculture -- Goth names -- 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? -- 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 -- 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 -- Son of music of the macabre -- Music mags and their raison d'etre -- Why go on ...? -- Goths converging -- Darkness, face to face -- Dancing the ghost -- Clubbing the night away -- The goth father speaks -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Visiting the vaults -- Cemetery picnics and other diversions -- Wicked holidays -- Other goth vacation fascinations -- 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 -- The preternatural is calling -- Psychic phenomenon -- Dracula and friends -- Vampires unlimited -- The blood countess -- La comtesse du sang de France -- Peter Kursten, the vampire of Dusseldorf -- The Vampire of Foster, Rhode Island -- Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus -- Lycanthrophy -- Ghouls -- Zombies -- Tools of the supernatural trade -- Talking boards -- Esoterica -- Nourishing the wounded soul -- Remembering the Inquisition -- A relationship with the Grim Reaper -- The X chapter: future tense.
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