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Walpole may have been the pioneer, but my personal favorite of this first generation of gothic novels is The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis. Since the Graveyard poets of the eighteenth century (Robert Blair, Edward Young and Thomas Gray), there have been those who languish over tombstones contemplating mortality, who meander through ruins on foggy nights, those who embrace the dark side and look fabulous doing it. Gloomths would be those who turn wallowing in melancholy into an art form. It doesn’t so much roll off the tongue but awkwardly fall off. Walpole also coined a term that would come to encompass goth culture: gloomth. It was considered a bit trashy at the time, but Otranto introduced the horror genre as we know it and is the blueprint for almost every episode of Scooby-Doo. Mysterious and spooky.īut 168 years before Charles Addams’ The Addams Family first appeared in The New Yorker, Horace Walpole wrote what is considered the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto in 1764. There are usually references to death and the supernatural, the creepy and the kooky. But it generally evokes the dark and the eerie, an unheimlich quality (as the Germans say). It’s a nebulous word that can be applied to almost anything architecture, fashion, art, film, music or literature. Over the years it has evolved to encompass other subcultures creating splinter groups: vampire goths, lolita goths, cyber goths, rock-a-billy goths, pastel goths, and corporate goths, which I suppose would be me. Bauhaus, Siouxsie & the Banshees, and The Cure followed and with it came a DIY aesthetic mixing punk, Victorian mourning and memento mori iconography. I was a spooky kid who grew up to be a spooky adult.ĭepending on your age, goth probably evokes a different image the sulky South Park goth kids, or Winona Ryder’s Lydia Deetz from Beetlejuice, but before goth was “goth” it started with music, specifically the post-punk band Joy Division. My name means “dark as night” in Arabic and I occasionally faint for no apparent reason. I may wear less eyeliner and there’s a lot less velvet in my wardrobe, but I love cemeteries, horror movies, and prefer my skies overcast. Bands may come and go, music evolves, fashion ebbs and flows but goth will never die. For a music-based subculture it has a remarkable longevity that spans generations from Elder Goths to Baby Bats. I still have the Ouija board too but now it’s mostly for decorative purposes.

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I was in the sixth grade and spent much of my time listening to Siouxsie & the Banshees on my portable record player and summoning ghosts with my Ouija board, then I found the paperback of Interview with the Vampire on my parents bookshelf and never gave it back. I discovered goth music about the same time I discovered Anne Rice.