URBAN GOTHIC"Gothic"

    Goths can be defined in a succinct but unhelpful way as "people who are into gothic things". But what does that actually mean?

    The gothic novels of the early nineteenth century, was responsible for the term "gothic" being associated with a mood of horror, darkness and the supernatural. They established the now-familiar horror staples such as graveyards, ruined castles or churches, ghosts, vampires, cursed families, being buried alive and melodramatic plots. Gothic novels are often concerned with the fate of a curious young woman. A notable element in these novels was the brooding figure of the gothic villain, which developed into the Byronic hero, on which the male goth image is heavily based. The most famous gothic villain was, of course, the vampire Count Dracula. In 1993, the English town of Whitby became the location of the UK's biggest goth festival purely because it appears in Bram Stoker's Dracula. ......