The grisly triple murder in Medicine Hat has forced a school in the southern Alberta city to pull a resource book indefinitely from its curriculum.

Just weeks after two people described as goths were charged with a grisly Medicine Hat triple slaying, a parent said she is outraged over a school lesson she says glorifies the dark culture.

It is every parent's nightmare: the moment their teenagers adopt black hair dye and white make-up. But a report suggests these children usually have a bright future. Ciar Byrne reports

Clad in black, heavily painted with pale make-up and dark eyeliner, the goth's way of life is not usually associated with a church service unless, that is, it is being conducted by the Rev Marcus Ramshaw.

A chaplain is helping to show young "Goths" the light - with a special church service.

Experts: Parents shouldn't fret over wardrobes and musical tastes

The joint suicide of two teenage girls, who hurled themselves from a 17th-floor window in a Paris suburb, has raised troubling questions in France about the influence of Black Metal – a form of modern rock music that openly glorifies violence and death.

April 24, 2005 — Salma Duarte doesn’t fall under the guise of “Class Favorite” or “Most Popular” at Porter High School.

When Cordell Draeger read that the shooter at Red Lake High School was into Goth subculture, Draeger's world turned dark because he feared that Goth subculture was being misrepresented.

As Luke Mitchell stood in the dock at the High Court in Edinburgh, convicted of the brutal murder of his girlfriend Jodi Jones, it was still business as usual at the goth hang-outs that they once frequented.

Brian Warner is a multi-millionaire whose luxurious lifestyle has been built on a reputation for promoting death and destruction among teenagers. He is better known as Marilyn Manson.

Goth culture provides an outlet for youngsters alienated by mainstream life to express themselves, an expert said today

The Goth culture with its black dress code, bleak music and body art has provided a harmless outlet for countless disaffected teenagers.

Worshiping Satan never really appealed to 16-year-old Abby Autery.

Sixteen-year-old Sonya Feinn usually wears black clothes, thick eyeliner and dark lipstick. She listens to Sisters of Mercy and Nine Inch Nails. She is accustomed to people glaring at her Gothic-inspired outfits, so she wasn't surprised when journalists described a Marshfield, Mass., teen accused of plotting a school shooting as a Goth.

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