Contents

Features

8. Goths Camping (?)(Leipzig) A pleasant weekend under canvas
10. Sue and J’s weddings Twice in twenty four hours!
11. Handfasting - a history Made - up or Real?
12. Goths - they just wear black, don’t they? A style dissection on Mat and Toni
14. Book review - the God Delusion The case for Atheism
15. The Presidential Prayer Team The Bible helps us out
16. Interview with Redvamp The Vampire model answers our questions
19. The Fiend of Folklore European Legends
22. Gothic Fantasies We interview Anne Sudworth
26. Gothic Pathology, Baroque In tensity Lovecraft and LeFanu dissected
29.The TSD Meeting A convention in Sighisoara
32. Black is Beautiful and so are Pink Extensions An insider’s comment on the WGT 36. Open day at Nunhead Cemetery A Group visit
40. Blood in mythology and Religion An overview of bloody significance
42. Are we ROARing loudly enough? Tough opinion

Regulars

4. News from the Dark Side News and gossip, Robert Rankin weekend
6. Film News Daywatch, 28 weeks later, Blood and Chocolate
34. CDs Reviewed
35. Gigs reviews Cradle of Filth, Phantom of the Opera
38. Book Reviews Blood Lament, Necropolis, The Secret War, Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders, The affected Provincial’s Companion, Gabriele Caccini, The Art of Funerary Violin, How to Start your own Secret Society
43. Letters page - your say
44. A Problem Shared...(the Vindicator) Answers to your problems from our very own agony aunt
45. Tales from the Graveyard
46. Book Review Going Back

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Contributors (in no particular order): Tara Daynes Rosemary Burney Nancy Schumann Mark Benecke Rutland Dedlock
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