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"MYTH, LEGEND, AND THE DARK MUSE"
  Part I - Judith and Holophernes   Part V - La Belle Dame Sans Merci
  Part II - The Myth of Orpheus   Part VI - The Death of Ophelia
  Part III - Perseus and Andromeda   Part VII - The Death of Cleopatra
  Part IV - Circe the Enchantress   Part VIII - The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian
 
FEATURED ARTISTS AND INTERVIEWS
  Hansjurgen Bauer   Lori Earley
  Amy Bennett    
GALLERY EXHIBITS
  Remedios Varo   Antoine Wiertz
MINI-FEATURES
ART IN CULTURE
  Gwynplaine and The Joker   The Ghoulish Gallery
  Lustmord: When Death Inspires Art   The Gates of Albert Paley
  Illusionary Skulls   21st Century Schizoid Man
  Salome   The Misfit's Skull
  The Tomb of Ligeia   Death and the Glutton
  Baphomet   Death Claims a Suicide
  Memento Mori   Death Claims an Infant Baby
  Seven Deadly Sins   Demons
  Visions of Vampirella   Visions of Lady Death
  Visions of Purgatori   Visions of Chastity
  Visions of Lady Demon   Visions of Dawn
  Iron Maiden's "Eddie the Head"   "Temptation"
  Premature Burial   The White Witch
  "Death Car"    
CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS
  Yoshitaka Amano   Alphonso Azpiri
  Jason Beam   Julie Bell
  Enki Bilal   The dark fantasy art of Simon Bisley
  Brom   Brom
  John Bolton   Gia Chikvaidze
  Jean-Claude Claeys   Dorian Cleavenger
  Brian Froud   D. W. Frydenall
  Juan Gimenez   Marcus Gray
  Gris Grimley   The Brothers Hildebrandt
  Adam Hughes   Howard David Johnson
  Ayami Kojima   Matt Mahurin
  Tony Mauro   Patrick McEvoy
  François Miville-Deschênes   Rowena Morrill
  Paul Renaud   Keel
  Derek Riggs   Massimo Rotundo
  Luis Royo   Mark Ryden
  Crab Scrambly   Paolo Serpieri
  Masamune Shirow   Wojtek Siudmak
  Sorayama   Drew Struzan
  Chad Michael Ward   Dave Correia
  Simon Bisley - Anime Illustration   Joseph Linsner
  Arantza Sestayo - Beautiful vampires    
       
20th CENTURY ARTISTS
19th CENTURY ARTISTS
  William Bouguereau 'Elegy"   John William Waterhouse
  William Bouguereau 'Bacchante"   Philip Burne-Jones "Vampire"
  William Bouguereau 'Elegy"   Jean Delville
  John Collier   Henry Fuseli "Nightmare"
  Gustav Dore "Scenes of the Apocalypse"   William Etty
  Knut Ekwall "Fisherman and the Siren"   John William Godward
  Joshua Reynolds - "Sarah Siddons"   Arthur Hacker "Temptation of Parsival"
  Louis Welden Hawkins   Albert-Joseph Pénot - "Bat Woman"
  Lord Frederick Leighton   Lord Frederick Leighton
  Salvatore Rosa   Solomon J. Solomon
  Franz Von Stuck   Henry Wallis "Death of Chatterton"
      John William Waterhouse
18th CENTURY ARTISTS
  John Hamilton Mortimer    
RENAISSANCE ARTISTS
  Gian Lorenzo Bernini: St. Theresa   Durer's 'Knight, Death and the Devil'
 
     
 
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MINI-FEATURES
"PLACES AND EVENTS"
  The Ossuary Chapel of Sedlec   The Bone Pyramid at Sedlec
  Haunted Halloween Attractions   I See Dead Things at "Necromance"
  Dead Can Dance/The Tomb of Raspail   The Embracing Skeletons of Mantua
  Sleepy Hollow: a legend you can visit!   Bat's Day in the Fun Park
  The Rare Beauty of the Corpse Flower   Hollywood Movie Night in the Cemetery
  Strawberry Hill: birthplace of gothic   Abney Park Cemetery
  We All Scream... Free Ben and Jerry's!   Labyrinth of Jareth Masquerade
"PERSONALITIES"
  The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin   Gotham Public Works
  Milicent Patrick and The Creature   Herschell G. Lewis, Godfather of Gore
  Elizabeth Pepper - Witches' Almanac   Brian Jones - 1942-1969
  Laurie Cabot - Salem's 'Official' Witch   The Legacy of Edward Gorey
  Brian Froud   Ray Bradbury
  Ray Harryhausen   Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  Stan Winston - Classic Monster FX   Anita Berber: Priestess of the Depraved
  The Death of Poet Thomas Chatterton   William Castle director of 50's Horror
  Lord Byron's Physician   The Unforgettable Bob Clark
  Rick Baker - Master of Monster Make-up   Lon Chaney Sr. Man of 1,000 Faces
  Sarah Siddons The Tragic Muse   Lon Chaney Jr. Curse of the Wolfman
"PUBLICATIONS"
Rue Morgue Magazine   Creepy and Eerie Magazines
    GOTH - Undead Subculture
"SAYINGS, SYMBOLISM & CELEBRATIONS "
  The Symbolism of Baphomet   Day of the Dead
  Inverted Pentagram Sigil of Baphomet   "Mad as a March Hare"
  The Seven Deadly Sins   "Memento Mori" Remember Death
  Baby New Year    
"DECADENT FOOD, DRINK, DRUGS & POISONS "
  Fat Witch Brownies!   The Opiate Laudanum
  Transylvanian Desserts   Belladonna aka Deadly Nightshade
  Macabre Mealtime Recipes   Opium Dens and the Literati
  Absinthe   Arsenic: the "Inheritance Powder"
"HISTORY, MYTH and LEGEND"
  The Iron Maiden of Nuremburg   The Two Graves of Edgar Allan Poe
  The Book of Martyrs   Eros and Psyche
  The Burning Times   Candaules the King Shows His Wife...
  The Tragic Love of Hero and Leander   Thesesus Kills the Minotaur
  Glaucus et Scylla   Ajax and Cassandra
  The Death of Marat   The Death of Caesar
      Byron and the The Haunted Summer
  Ghost Ships   Ghosts of the Old South
  Pirates, Pain and Punishment   William Kidd: Pirate or Privateer?
  The Guillotine   Kali, the Goddess of Destruction
  Ulysses and the Sirens   The Delphic Oracle
  The Lamia   The Demon Pazuzu
  Erzabet Bathory, The Blood Countess   Jack O'Lantern
  The Ravens of the Tower of London   Anne Boleyn's Death at the Black Tower
  Puck the trickster   Lady Jane's Death at the Black Tower
  The Bacchante   The Black Dahlia
"SEXUALITY AND FETISH"
  Nunsploitation    
 
 
 
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FEATURES
  Fashion Institute Costume Exhibits   Shrine - Gothic Fashion
 
     
 
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MINI-ESSAYS & REVIEWS
  "Bloodsucking Fiends" by Chris Moore   H. P. Lovecraft: The Horror of Cthulhu
  "Control Freak" by Christa Faust   The Man Who Laughs
  Dragonology   The Marketplace by Laura Antoniou
  The Forest of Valancourt   The Master of All Desires
  The Golden: vampire gothic   The Monk
  Gormenghast: The Tale of Titus Groan   The Mysteries of Udolpho
  Hot Blood - Erotic Horror   The Northanger Horrid Novels
  The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin   The Castle of Wolfenbach
  In Maremma - Early Gothic by Ouida   Clermont - A Northanger Horrid Novel
  Witches Almanac - Elizabeth Pepper   Mammoth Book of Historical Erotica
  The Worm Ouroboros   The Mystery of the Black Tower
  Kushiel's Dart: a s&m sci-fi romance   The Sword of Shannara
  Dragonology by Dr. Ernest Drake   Topping From Below by Laura Reese
  The Twilight Zone Companion   Aqua Erotica - A Book for the Bath
  The Vampyre by Doctor John Polidori   GOTH - Undead Subculture
 
 
CLASSIC SHORT STORIES
  Winston Churchill - "Man Overboard"   H.P. Lovecraft - "Dagon"
  Aleister Crowley - "The Violinist"   H.P. Lovecraft - "The Unnameable"
  Aleister Crowley - "The Vixen"   H.P. Lovecraft - "From Beyond"
  Aleister Crowley - "His Secret Sin"   H.P. Lovecraft - "Nyarlathotep"
  W. F. Harvey - "August Heat"   I. A. Ireland,"Ending For A Ghost Story"
  Edgar Allan Poe - "The Oval Portrait"   Saki - "The Open Window"
  3 Exerpts from Bram Stoker's Dracula   Anonymous - "Guilty Eyes"
  1   The Brides of Blood    
  2   The Mortal Death of Lucy Westenra    
  3   Dr. Van Helsing's Memorandum    
CONTEMPORARY SHORT STORIES
  "Little Teeth"   "The View From Cell Block 10"
  "Sweet Jason"   "Uncle Morris"
  "Little Sister's Guardian"   "Genie"
  Adverse Logic for the Man About Town    
 
     
 
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High Priestess Regan Miss Ammunition Ember Furie
Colette Claire Francine Jacqueline Van Bierk
Eireann Kat Leanne
Arika ModiX Zenova
Jessica Victoria Lane Miss Conduct
VioletEyes Tantra Bensko Jamie
Gina Rizzi Vela Selina
Lucifera    
 
     
 
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MOVIE REVIEWS
  1408   The Invisible
  28 Weeks Later   Lady in the Water
  30 Days of Night   Land of the Dead
  300   MirrorMask
  Aeon Flux   Next
  Batman Begins   The Notorious Bettie Page
  BloodRayne   The Number 23
  Brothers Grimm   The Omen
  Casanova   Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory   The Prestige
  Children of Men   Red Eye
  Corpse Bride   Resident Evil: Extinction
  Dark Water   Saw II
  Descent   Saw III
  Disturbia   Serenity
  Eragon   Sin City
  Eternal   Skeleton Key
  The Fog   Slither
  The Fountain   Spiderman 3
  Ghost Rider   Ultraviolet
  Grindhouse   Underworld: Evolution
  The Grudge 2   V for Vendetta
  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire   Vacancy
  High Tension   War of the Worlds
  Hostel Part II   The Wicker Man
  House of Wax   X-Men: The Last Stand
  The Illusionist  
 
 
MOVIE FEATURE STORIES AND ESSAYS
  PUPPET TERROR IN THE MOVIES   THE TRUTH ABOUT "THE NUMBER 23"
  A TRUE HISTORY OF "THE LIBERTINE"   THE LEGACY OF THE "CHAINSAW"
 
 
ACTOR AND FILMMAKER INTERVIEWS
  THE GRAVEDANCERS   PENNY DREADFUL
  UNREST   Marisa Petroro of UNREST
 
  MINI MOVIE FEATURES  
 
  Girl on a Bridge love, with edge-play   Santa Sangre
  Artemisia   William Castle's Creepy Horror
  Blade Runner   Dark City
  Tombs of the Blind Dead   Kissed
  The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari   The Fangoria Short Film Collection
  Pan's Labyrinth   The Unforgettable Bob Clark
  Straight Into Darkness   Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
  Angel Heart   Ninja Scroll
  Arsenic and Old Lace   Curse of the Living Corpse
  Dagon   Queen of Blood
  The Thing   Farinelli
  Shocking cinema of Takashi Miike   The Jacket
  Slaughter of the Vampires Latin Gothic   Halfway House
  Captain Jack Sparrow   Labyrinth
  Gotham   Haunted
  The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer   Brides of Blood
  Spider Baby   Subliminal Images of The Exorcist
  The Brain That Wouldn't Die   The Bride of Frankenstein
      The Creature from the Black Lagoon
 
     
 
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MINI PROFILES
  Azure Ray ~ Southern gothic angels   Excelsis: A Winter Song - Volume 2
  A Dark Noel: Excelsis, Volume 1   Peter Gabriel: Early Music of Genesis
  The Mediaeval Baebes   Jocelyn Montgomery's 'Lux Vivens'
  Opeth Scandinavian Black Metal   Scarling. Neo-goth punk-pop
  The Devil's Interval    
 
 
INTERVIEWS
  Apocalyptica's Eicca Toppinen   Gen of the Genitorturers
  Sarah McLachlan   The Dresden Dolls
  Lydia Lunch   Abby Travis
  Adrian Belew and King Crimson   The Tiger Lillies
  The Divine Madness   The Last Dance
  The Great Kat   Apocalyptica
 
     
 
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FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHERS
  Hansjurgen Bauer
  Elizabeth Huston
 
 
 
PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS
  Bettie Page Confidential by Bunny Yeager
 
     
 
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On A Dead Child by Richard Middleton 1
When I Am Dead, My Dearest by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The Worms Crawl In, The Worms Crawl Out (anonymous)
Sly Dick by Thomas Chatterton
Charles Baudelaire "Allegory" from The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire "Voyage to Cythera" from The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire "Beatrice" from The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire "The Condemned Women" from The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire "Delphine and Hippolyte" from The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire "Destruction" from The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire "A Fountain of Blood" from The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire "Two Good Sisters" from The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire "Lesbos" from The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire "A Martyr" from The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire "Love and a Skull" from The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire "Metamorphosis of the Vampire" from The Flowers of Evil
William Blake "America, A Prophesy"
William Blake "A Poison Tree"
William Blake "The Tyger"
William Blake "The Sick Rose"
Lord George Gordon Byron "Darkness"
Lord George Gordon Byron "Prometheus"
Lord George Gordon Byron "So We'll Go No More A Roving"
Lord George Gordon Byron "The Destruction of Sennacherib "
Lord George Gordon Byron "And Thou Art Dead, As Young And Fair "
Nathaniel Hawthorne "Address to the Moon"
Nathaniel Hawthorne "Go To The Grave"
Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Darken'd Veil"
John Keats "When I Have Fears"
John Keats "Ode On Melancholy"
John Keats "To Sleep"
Edna St. Vincent Millay "Sorrow"
Edna St. Vincent Millay "The Suicide"
Edna St. Vincent Millay "The Death of Autumn"
Edna St. Vincent Millay "Burial"
Edna St. Vincent Millay "The Little Ghost "
Edna St. Vincent Millay "Wraith"

Fitz~James O'Brien

 "The Demon of the Gibbet"

Edgar Allen Poe

 "Annabel Lee"

Edgar Allen Poe

 "Lenore"

Edgar Allen Poe

 "The Haunted Palace"

Edgar Allen Poe

 "The Raven "

Edgar Allen Poe

 "Spirits of the Dead"

Edgar Allen Poe

 "The Valley of Unrest"

Edgar Allen Poe

 "A Dream Within a Dream"

Robert W. Service

 "The Cremation of Sam McGee"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 "Always At Sea"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 "Ad Finem "

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 "The Duel "

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 "A Man's Repentance"

Oscar Wilde

"The Grave of Keats"

Oscar Wilde

"Requiescat"

Oscar Wilde

"The Grave of Shelley"
 
     
 
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  Definitive guide to The Twilight Zone   Gormenghast: The Tale of Titus Groan
     
 
     
 
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FEATURES
  Witch Doctor Headshrinker Kit   Mortal Kombat
  Living Dead Dolls   Lotus The Angel Warrior Figure
  McFarlane's Dragons   Manhunt Video Game
  De-stress with Voodoo Dolls   Halo Wars Video Game
  Tortured Souls Action Figures   Final Fantasy XII
  Living Dead Dolls   Gears of War
 
     
 
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'Stupid' by Sarah McLachlan "Monster" a short film by Jennifer Kent
'Everything's Wonderful' by Abby Travis "Dear Sweet Emma" animation by John Cernak
"Shock the Monkey" Peter Gabriel "The Life and Death of a Pumpkin"
"Lithium" by Evanescence "The Tell Tale Heart" Poe's story - UPA studios
Black #1 by Type O Negative "The Importance of Being Earnest"
"Dragula" by Rob Zombie "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" a classic scene
'Stigmata Martyr' by Abney Park "Witch Doctor Headshrinker Kit" a vintage ad
"Thriller" by the Indian pop star Chiru
"The Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance
"Bittersweet" by Apocalyptica with Ville Valo
Dance of the Dead Children by Lydia Lunch
"Lucretia My Reflection" by Sisters of Mercy
"Clown" by Switchblade Symphony
"Tournequet" by Marilyn Manson
"Train" by Goldfrapp  
"She's In Parties" by Bauhaus  
 
     
 
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