Goth music was as much a product of English subcultures in the late ’70s as it was a reaction to statis within rock music. Taking cues from David Bowie, New York Dolls, and the Damned, a new ...

In 1764, Horace Walpole published the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto, set in a labyrinthine castle surrounded by woods. The novel features the supernatural, with a dark secret from the past ...

Not every goth essential out there is a full-stop gothic rock song. Many of the songs on this list could be considered gothic rock tunes, but some of them lean toward different genres. Nevertheless, ...

Black Sabbath might've flirted with the Christian iconography that would become so synonymous with gothic metal, but heavy metal's architects can only claim the barest hint of parentage over metal's ...

The Art of Darkness, John Robb‘s mammoth-sized collection of essays on the history of goth music, rivals anything by the works of Greil Marcus and Jon Savage concerning his exhaustive passion for his ...

Pensacola’s gothic scene is flourishing. What started as periodic evenings of gothic music and dance has grown into monthly events at the iconic Handlebar, and a flourishing new business to support ...

Deep into the night, heat from the 100-degree day radiates off the sidewalk outside of Elysium, Austin's oldest goth bar. It'll celebrate 25 years this year. By 10 p.m. on the Sunday I went, dancers ...