Contents

Features

4. Sophie Lancaster dedication - Whitby Goth Weekend
5. Egghead challenge - Do we have brains?
8.If it bleeds, it leads - Real journalism and media hypocrisy
9. It's not all Fun and Games - 25 downsides to being Goth ( - 0nly 25?)
10. Steampunk - what's that all about? - Outlined by an advocate
11.Hallowe'en - the Dark Side - An opinion
12. Goths -they just wear black, don't they?-Rosie Lugosi shows us how it can be done
14. Release the Horrorhound - Looking at the US horror convention
16. London's Burning - The fire in Camden
18. The Bats of Britain - What you can find in the UK
20. Make your own bats Scissors and glue ready!
23. Goth Craft - how can this be? - A Gothic perspective
26.The TSD Meeting May 2008 - A convention in Bucharest
28. Ship Ahoy - Vampirates party
30. The Legend of Simon Magus - Faust's alternative
37. Culling Cupid - An alternative approach to St Valentine's Day

Regulars

6. Dead Channel - What's on the screen soon?
17.Notes from Nightmare Abbey - Two exhibitions
7, 24, 32, 33, 38 Book Reviews - Let the right one in, Ghostwalk, Lonely Werewolf Girl, "Oh, Whistle..., Tourniquet, Blood is the New Black, Full Moon Rising, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Castle in the Forest, Pornification
34. A Problem Shared... (the Vindicator) - answers to your problems from our very own agony aunt
35. Tales from the Graveyard
36. Letters Page - your say

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Contributors (in no particular order): Tara Daynes Melanie Metcalfe-Thompson Nancy Schumann Mark Benecke Rutland Dedlock
Louisa Wright-Wastell Sue Barrow Mick Smith Ed St Boniface Rebecca Summers Zuul Grant Mitchell Captain J B Sadeian Patricia McCormack Christie L.Tucker Rob o Connell Marcus Jones Rosie Lugosi Lawrence Brightman Martin Small
Editor Mick Smith
Printers Polstead Press
Front Cover Ester Segarra
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