This article provides an ethnographic account of Goth subculture within a major metropolitan city in the northeastern United States of America

Goth subculture emerged in the socioeconomic decline and Thatcherite politics of late 1970s Britain, on the heels of punk’s infamous rebellion

Despite being frequently misunderstood and at times maligned in popular culture, the goth subculture has slowly made its way to the mainstream

The Gothic texts and films turn into a personal narrative that, in some way, connects the Gothic protagonist to the reader or spectator.

Numerous religious and spiritual movements, which current scientific classifies as occultism, esotericism or alternative religion have been offering ways of coping with life to a population that is looking for meaning

Since their animation out of folk materials in the nineteenth-century by Polidori, as Varney, and in Le Fanu and Stoker, vampires have been continually reborn in modern culture