Introduction 1 Floorshow: a night out at the heart of 1980s goth 2 The fall of Rome 3 Deep in the forest: Europe's Gothic history 4 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know': the Romantics and the Gothic imagination 5 Euro visions 6 The devil has the best tunes 7 Paint it black: the dark heart of the psychedelic sixties 8 All the children are insane, or people are strange: the (un)holy trinity: The Doors/Velvets/Stooges 9 Wham bam thank you glam: the dark side of glam rock 10 Proto post-punk 11 The punk wars 12 'What was once unhealthily fresh is now a clean old hat': post-punk to a very Public Image 13 Spellbound: Siouxsie and the Banshees 14 Feel the pain: The Damned 15 Ridicule is nothing to be scared of: Adam Ant 16 New dawn fades: Manchester and Joy Division 17 'The wreckers of western civilisation.': industrial music 18 'I must fight this sickness. find a cure': The Cure 19 The naughty north and the sexy south 20 All we ever wanted was everything: Bauhaus 21 Lord of chaos: a dark and beautiful playground: Killing Joke 22 Release the bats! Nick Cave 23 'I am not avant-garde I am a deserter': Blixa Bargeld, Einstürzende Neubauten and the reinvention of Berlin 24 Voodoo idols: the ballad of Lux and Ivy 25 First, last and always: how post-punk Leeds created goth and The Sisters of Mercy 26 Vagabonds Bradford: New Model Army and Joolz 27 Flowers in the forest: Southern Death Cult 28 Wanted dead or alive: how Liverpool opened the doors to a new (North) West Coast sound 29 Do you believe in the westworld? Theatre of Hate 30 A new form of beauty: Virgin Prunes, Dublin: how Lypton Village changed a nation 31 'Good poetry can still resonate louder than a thousand guns': Rammstein for grown-ups: Laibach 32 At the gates of silent memory: Field of the Nephilim 33 Darklands: how the dark energy infected indie 34 'We sing to the gods to be free': American Gothic and the dark art of the American dream 35 Trans Europe Express 36 In the flat field, suburbs and satellite towns: the second coming of goth 37 Apocalypse now! Goth's end days Index.