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By *ake_or_death OP Man
over a year ago

Manchester

As we head into spooky season, what gothic things do you especially enjoy - films, books, fashions, buildings? Let your inner goth out.

I'll start;

The John Rylands' Library building.

Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Salisbury and Wells Cathedrals are both breathtakingly beautiful

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By *etitesaraTV/TS
over a year ago

rochdale

Sacking Rome.

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By *rsMistyPeaksWoman
over a year ago

Essex

Frankenstein the book. I have a massive thing for Mary Shelly & her life also.

Buildings, churches, mausoleums, old sanitariums. Graveyards.

I love the Victorian gothic styles. Lace & corsets. A million buttons & laces on everything from a show or a stocking to a glove.

Skulls & taxidermy. Making art from the macabre.

I love gothic

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All the things goth.

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By *obyn GravesTV/TS
over a year ago

1127 walnut avenue

Being miserable..

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By *edeWoman
over a year ago

the abyss

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Raven, and watching the nightmare before Christmas as a family

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As well as lots of other loves, for me it's the book Bram Stoker's- Dracula, Gaston leroux - the phantom of the opera and yes Mary Shelly Frankenstein. Also Elizabeth Kostova - The historian. I love the fact the spooky season makes a lot of the cool stuff more accessible, but it does bring out the tacky plastic fantastic £1 stuff too :D

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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago

Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton,

"Frankenstein the book. I have a massive thing for Mary Shelly & her life also.

Buildings, churches, mausoleums, old sanitariums. Graveyards.

I love the Victorian gothic styles. Lace & corsets. A million buttons & laces on everything from a show or a stocking to a glove.

Skulls & taxidermy. Making art from the macabre.

I love gothic "

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By *hatBeardedChapMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

Big titty goth girls of course, when else but October can you be down bad for the spooky girls

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By *ake_or_death OP Man
over a year ago

Manchester

I like some of the Edgar Allen Poe adaptations starring Vincent Price - especially Masque Of The Red Death and Tomb Of Ligeia.

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By *entlemenpipMan
over a year ago

not far

Heavy metal

Bdsm

Gothic clothes

Classis horror movies

Pagan rituals

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By *ake_or_death OP Man
over a year ago

Manchester

Incidentally, Dracula: Prince of Darkness is on Legend at 10:45 tonight (starring Christopher Lee).

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By *ulieAndBeefCouple
over a year ago

Manchester-ish

Edgar Allan Poe

Sacrifing virgins

Edward Gorey

Summoning demons

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

It's a phase

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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago

Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe

The house I live in is described on the Historic England website as "Victorian High Gothic style", but there's no sign of Frankenstein!

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By *amie HantsWoman
over a year ago

Atlantis

Dracula

The gothic quarter in Barcelona

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Siouxsie Sioux xx

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By *TinyDelight-Woman
over a year ago

City Centre

"Siouxsie Sioux xx"

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By *TinyDelight-Woman
over a year ago

City Centre

Marsh's library in Dublin. I love the feeling there.

Siouxie and the banshees - juju is one of my favourite goth albums but The Cures - Disintegration wins hands-down for me.

Edgar Allen Poe and Stokers Dracular for some light reading is good.

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By *aulaxd2020TV/TS
over a year ago

Dudley

Dressing in black

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

I really like Gothic architecture, there's something very dark fantasy and otherworldly about it.

LvM

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By *ake_or_death OP Man
over a year ago

Manchester

"Marsh's library in Dublin. I love the feeling there.

Siouxie and the banshees - juju is one of my favourite goth albums but The Cures - Disintegration wins hands-down for me.

Edgar Allen Poe and Stokers Dracular for some light reading is good.

Siouxie was ridiculously hot back in the day.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Horror movies are for life, not just October.

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By *TinyDelight-Woman
over a year ago

City Centre

"The gothic quarter in Barcelona"

You can't help but be charmed by the area.

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By *TinyDelight-Woman
over a year ago

City Centre

"Siouxie was ridiculously hot back in the day."

I always thought so too.

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By *avinaTVTV/TS
over a year ago

Transsexual Transylvania

Cologne Cathedral...

Moonlit walks in graveyards...

Victoriana, corsetry and lace...

Leather jackets and boots...

Candles...

Incense...

Snow in woods on a moonlit night...

The unbearable anguish of a soulmate's loss...

...Goth! What's that all about?

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By *tanley FunseekerMan
over a year ago

stanley

"As we head into spooky season, what gothic things do you especially enjoy - films, books, fashions, buildings? Let your inner goth out.

I'll start;

The John Rylands' Library building.

Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff. "

Whitby Priory abd Preytothefairies

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

"Big titty goth girls of course, when else but October can you be down bad for the spooky girls

This

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By *ooBulMan
over a year ago

Missin’ Yo’ Kissin’

The cult (I said "THE CULT")- She Sells Sanctuary. Love his little Michael Flatley jig at the beginning. LOL!

Watson Fothergill - you can't get more Gothic than that geezer. You can't beat a good Gothic arch.... His gargoyles are to die for

The Munsters.

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By *obyn GravesTV/TS
over a year ago

1127 walnut avenue

Burning down churches dodgy right wing politics and murder...

Oops.. sorry getting my black metal and Goth mixed up there..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I went to Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig during the summer.

It's the biggest Goth festival in the world

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By *ake_or_death OP Man
over a year ago

Manchester

I'm back on a little gothic kick. Last night I watched an episode of a 70s series called Haunted - the episode is called The Ferryman and stars Jeremy Brett as a writer who has a huge success with a ghost story. He gets annoyed at the assumption that he must be a believer in the supernatural but when he and his wife find themselves in an Inn full of unlikely echoes of his novel he begins to question...

I'm also working through an anthology series from the same period called Supernatural - the idea is that there is a club you can only join if you have an experience to share that chills the blood of the existing members. Personally I find each episode a little slow and stage-y which is a shame as the casts are excellent but if you love the gothic it might well be worth a watch as your mileage may vary.

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By *arlot o scaraWoman
over a year ago

Hell

"It's a phase "

ITS NOT A PHASE MUM

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

There's no end of 70s telly gothic folk horror on Youtube

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

I do enjoy gothic romance books my current favourite being a lesbian romance (Lady Venom takes a mistress)

I do find the goth look on women very hot!

Mrs

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By *ake_or_death OP Man
over a year ago

Manchester

"There's no end of 70s telly gothic folk horror on Youtube

There was an article published in a newspaper the other day about what a shame it is that there's so little weird TV anymore compared to the 70s and 80s. And it's true - I don't mean out-and-out horror or sci-fi (there's loads of that around, especially on streamers) but those bizarre series that fall between the genres, full of memorable images but low on intelligibility

And so much of it was for kids!

I watched one called Artemis 81 the other day which involved a classical composer who refused to play a particular piece, an obsessive writer, an alien planet, a strange dystopian city and Sting. I honestly have almost no idea what it was about but I love the fact that it was made as part of mainstream British television when there were only 3 television channels.

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By *ake_or_death OP Man
41 weeks ago

Manchester

Gothic lovers who have access to Sky Arts can watch a 4-part series called Wonderland: Gothic which looks at gothic literature, film, painting and architecture. Worth a watch.

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By *ittlemissFlirtyCouple
41 weeks ago

3rd Rock from the sun

I discovered the John Ryland Library when I was last in Manchester... just stunning !

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By *ake_or_death OP Man
41 weeks ago

Manchester

"I discovered the John Ryland Library when I was last in Manchester... just stunning !"

One of my favourite buildings! I visit it every so often, even if there's no exhibition on there that I'm interested in, just because I love being in there.

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By (user no longer on site)
41 weeks ago

Just found out Lydia Lunch is playing in London this July.

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By *rgasmatron1970Man
41 weeks ago

Bromley

The pit and the pendulum, both the book by edgar Allen poe and the classic film with Vincent price

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By *uri00620Woman
41 weeks ago

Croydon

"The pit and the pendulum, both the book by edgar Allen poe and the classic film with Vincent price "

And the pub in Nottingham with said name...

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By *ittlemissFlirtyCouple
41 weeks ago

3rd Rock from the sun

"I discovered the John Ryland Library when I was last in Manchester... just stunning !

One of my favourite buildings! I visit it every so often, even if there's no exhibition on there that I'm interested in, just because I love being in there."

It's wonderful..

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