Theatrically made-up eyes stare defiantly from behind the thick black curtain of her hair as her dark lips envelop the filter of her long, thin menthol cigarette.

PORTSMOUTH - You've seen them in the parks or at the mall, wearing black nail polish and lipstick or ripped tights and combat boots. Some have purple hair and strange tattoos. Others hang out at cemeteries or listen to music with lyrics about death.

Chicago Tribune, via Erie Times-News, Jan. 14, 2003

The Winston-Salem Journal, Nov. 18, 2002

Gothic is a way of dressing, a taste in music, a style. But in Germany - at the extreme fringes - it has also become the point at which neo-Nazism and Satanism meet. Report by John Hooper

The Quad-Cities Times, Nov. 5, 2002

Dead fashionable; Goth, that most unloved of youth cults, is back in style. A new book celebrates its history. Music, film and TV have been under its spell for years. Now the world of fashion has joined them. RYAN GILBEY takes a journey on the dark side

On Thursday nights, David Hart dons a black trench coat, black shirt, pants and boots and heads for a club called The Soil, where heavily pierced patrons emulate Count Dracula and Morticia Addams.