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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
What you don't know about goths could fill a book!
An artistic culture that revels in the Victorian romantic movement, The goth Bible brings to light the traditions and history of all that is goth. The goth culture has been one of the most controversial and maligned in media history. Presented as homicidal, suicidal and socio-pathic, in the national consciousness goths are coupled with everyone from Marilyn Mason to the murderers of Columbine. But,...
4) Beastly
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Kyle Kingson has it all, including a wicked cruel streak. He zeroes in on Goth classmate Kendra inviting her to the school's extravagant bash. After she accepts, he blows her off in a very cruel fashion. She retaliates by casting a spell that physically transforms him into everything he hates. Enraged by his horrible appearance he confronts Kendra and learns that the only way to break the curse is to find someone that will love him as he is, which...
Author
Publisher
Llewellyn Publications
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
From working shadow magick to spellcasting on the dance floor, Raven Digitalis explores the dynamic intersection between Witchcraft and Goth culture. Goth Craft introduces many kinds of Goths and Witches, and the philosophy of each.
Author
Publisher
Louder Than War Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This is the first comprehensive history of goth music and culture. Across more than 500 pages, John Robb explores the origins and legacy of this enduring scene, which has its roots in the post-punk era. Drawing on his own experience as a musician and journalist, Robb covers the style, the music and the clubs that spawned the culture, alongside political and social conditions. He also reaches back further to key historic events and movements that...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
An essential, fully illustrated guidebook to day-to-day Goth living
There's more to being a Goth than throwing on some black velvet, dyeing your hair, and calling it a day (or a night). How do you dress with morbid flair when going to a job interview? Is there such a thing as growing too old to be a Goth? How do you explain to your grandma that it's not just a phase?
Jillian Venters, a.k.a. "the Lady of the Manners," knows how to be strange and...
10) Midnight caller
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A smooth prose style and an authentic Big Easy vibe distinguish Tentler's debut. Dr. Rain Sommers, the host of Midnight Confessions, a New Orleans late-night radio talk show, was two years old in 1981 when Gavin Firth, Rain's British guitarist father, murdered her mother, Desiree Sommers, a popular goth singer, then killed himself. Special agent Trevor Rivette of the FBI's Violent Crimes Unit has been hunting a serial killer dubbed "the Vampire" (aka...
14) Goth: a history
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"GOTH is an entertaining and engaging historical memoir of the genre of Goth music and culture, exploring creative giants like The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Joy Division, and many more great bands that offered a place of refuge for the misfits of the 80s and ever since. Written by Lol Tolhurst, co-founder of The Cure, this book offers a fascinating deep dive into the movers and shakers of goth with stories and anecdotes from Tolhurst's...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Preparations for the Ghastly-Gorm Garden Party and bake-off are under way. Celebrity cooks are arriving at the hall for the big event and, true to form, Maltravers, the indoor gamekeeper, is acting suspiciously. Elsewhere at Ghastly-Gorm Ada's wardrobe-dwelling lady's maid Marylebone the bear has received a marriage proposal. Ada vows to aid the course of true love and find out what Maltravers is up to, but amidst all this activity, everyone, including...
17) Must love black
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
While looking for a nanny job in the newspaper, Philippa comes across a strange ad that makes her think she has found the perfect employers for a goth girl such as herself.
18) Beetle Juice
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
After Barbara and Adam Maitland are killed in a car crash, they find themselves trapped as ghosts in their beautiful New England farmhouse. Their peaceful 'existence' is disrupted when a yuppie family, the Deetz's, buy their house. The Maitlands are too nice and harmless as ghosts and all their efforts to scare the Deetz's away are unsuccessful. They decide to call to Beetlejuice, a people-exorcizing ghost, for help.
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A guidebook to the language of the most shadowy of subcultures, this work collects and defines more than 550 Gothic words and phrases. Compiled by an acclaimed Goth journalist and poet, this compendium provides insight into the unique vernacular of this fascinating community, describing in detail and with black humor the fashion, music, and lifestyle as well as sharing insider slang such as Babybat, Corp Goth, and the Gothic Two-Step. A Goth Band...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"For centuries she's waited for the right being to summon her to reign again over all her evil dominion. She is Akasha, the wickedly regal mother of all vampires. Lestat has now found acceptance in the tattooed, pierced, black-clad world as a Goth-riffed rock star. Together, Akasha and Lestat can rule forever. But Lestat's fascination with a flesh-and-blood mortal may upend that reign." --
