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"Apparitions," The Face (December, 1984). Photography by Andrew Macpherson.

Apter, Jeff. Never Enough: The Story of the Cure. London: Omnibus Press, 2005. 

D’Aurevilly, Barbey. Dandyism. Translated by Douglas Ainslie. New York: PAJ Publications, 1988

Baddeley, Gavin. Goth Chic: A Connoisseur's Guide to Dark Culture. London: Plexus, 2002.

Baldick, Chris. The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Barbarian, Steve Sutherland, and Robert Smith. The Cure: Ten Imaginary Years. London: Zomba Books, 1988.

"Be a Goth or just look like one," Time Out New York (October, 1995): 7-8

Bentley, Richard.  "The Letters of Horace Walpole." 6 vols.  London: 1846. 

"Black, White, and Red," i-D (May, 1998). Photography by Paolo Roversi.

Brokenmouth, Robert. Nick Cave: The Birthday Party and Other Epic Adventures. London: Omnibus Press, 1996.

Cabinet, "Evil", no. 5 (Winter 2001); "Doubles", no. 14 (Summer 2004); "Ruins", no. 20 (Winter 2005/6); "Shadows", no. 24 (Winter 2006-7). 

Casadio, Mariuccia and Pasquale Leccesse, eds. Black Book: Art & Fashion. Paris: Assouline, 1998

Clark, Kenneth. The Gothic Revival: An Essay in Taste. New York: Hold, Rinehart & Winston, 1962.

"The Clinic," The Face (March, 1997). Photography by Sean Ellis.

Coon, Caroline. 1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1977.

Davenport-Hines, Richard. Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

Forrest, Emma. "Grimly Fiendish," The Face (November, 1996)

Frayling, Christopher, Martin Myrone, and Marina Warner. Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination. London: Tate Publishing, 2006.

Goddard, Simon. The Smiths: Songs That Saved Your Life. London: Reynolds & Hearn, 2002.

Goodlad, Lauren and Michael Bibby, eds. Goth: Unded Subculture. Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2007.

Grunenberg, Christoph, et al. Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late Twentieth Century Art. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1997.

Heath, Ashley. "The Return of Goth," The Face (May, 1993)

Hebdidge, Dick. Subculture: The Meaning of Style. London: Routledge, 1988.

Heylin, Clinton. All Yesterday's Parties: The Velvet Underground in Print 1966-1971. New York: Da Capo Press, 2005.

Hodkinson, Paul. Goth: Identity, Style and Subculture. Oxford: Berg, 2002.

Hurley, Kelly.  The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siecle.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 

Jobling, Paul. Fashion Spreads: Word and Image in Fashion Photography Since 1980.
Oxford: Berg, 1999.

Keet, Philomena. The Tokyo Look Book: Stylish to Spectacular, Goth to Gyaru, Sidewalk to Catwalk. New York: Kodansha International, 2007.

Kilpatrick, Nancy. The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined. New York: St. Martins, 2004.

Kristeva, Julia.  Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection.  Trans. Leon S. Roudiez.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1982. 

Menkes, Suzy. "Beauty and Horror: The Magnificence of McQueen," International Herald Tribune (September 28, 2000).

Mercer, Mick.  Gothic Rock: All you ever wanted to know…but were too gormless to ask. Birmingham: Pegasus Publishing, 1991.

Mercer, Mick.  Hex Files: The Gothic Bible. New York: Overlook Press, 1997.

Mercer, Mick.  21st Century Goth. London: Reynolds & Hearn, 2002.

Middles, Mick, and Lindsay Reade. The Life of Ian Curtis: Torn Apart. London: Omnibus Press, 2006.

Moers, Ellen.  The Dandy: Brummell to Beerbohm.  London: Secker & Warburg, 1960. 

Moers, Ellen.  Literary Women.  London: W.H. Allen, 1978. 

Mowl, Timothy. Horace Walpole: The Great Outsider. London: John Murray, 1996.

"The New Goths," Elle UK (October, 1995): 20-21

Paytress, Mark. Siouxsie & The Banshees: The Authorised Biography. London: Sanctuary Publishing, 2003.

Peel, John, and Sheila Ravenscroft. John Peel: Margrave of the Marshes. London: Bantam, and Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2005.

Pike, Martha, and Janice Armstrong, eds. A Time to Mourn. Stony brook: The Museum at Stony Brook, 1980.

Poe, Edgar Allan. Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Vintage Books, 1975.

Reynolds, Simon. Rip It Up and Start Again. London: Penguin, 2005.

Ryersson, Scot & Michael Yaccarino. Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

Savage, John. England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1991.

Scott, Margaret.  Late Gothic Europe, 1400-1500. London: Mills & Boon, 1980.

Shirley, Ian. Dark Entries: Bauhaus and Beyond. Wembley, Middlesex: SAF Publishing, 1994.

"Sisters of Mercy," i-D (July, 2001) Photography by Greg Lotus.

Spooner, Catherine. Fashioning Gothic Bodies. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.

Spooner, Catherine. Contemporary Gothic. London: Reaktion Books, 2006. 

Steele, Valerie. Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996

Steampunk Magazine, nos. 1-5 (2007).

Stephan. “Specimen, the Batcave, the 80's, etc.Orkus (August 1997).

Stoker, Bram. Dracula.  New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1996.

"Taste of Arsenic," The Face (October, 1996). Photography by Sean Ellis.

"The Unexplained," The Face (March, 1999). Photography by Lee Jenkins.

Trynka, Paul. Iggy: Open Up and Bleed. New York: Broadway Books, 2007.

"Veiled Threats," The Face (January, 1985). Photography by Andrew Macpherson.

Vinken, Barara. Fashion Zeitgeist: Trends and Cycles in the Fashion System. Oxford: New York: Berg, 2005.

Waldron, Glenn.  “Prince of Darkness,”  Fashion Inc. (Autumn 06/Winter 07) pp. 164-173. 

Walpole, Horace. The Castle of Otranto. London: Penguin Classics, 2001.

Walpole, Horace. Letters. Whitefish: Kessinger Publishing, 2004.

"Which Witch is Which?" The Face  (July 1997), 156-63. Photography by Lee Jenkins. 

Williams, Gilda, ed. The Gothic: Documents of Contemporary Art. Cambridge, Mass., and London: The MIT Press, 2007.

Willis, Ellen.  “Velvet Underground: Golden Archive Series,” Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996.

Young, Rob. Rough Trade. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2006.

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