The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth

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1 Floorshow: A Night out at the Heart of 1980s Goth
2 The Fall of Rome
3 Deep in the Woods: Europe's Gothic History
4 Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: The Romantics and the Gothic Imagination
5 Euro Visions: Gothic art, Music and Architecture
6 The Devil Has the Best Tunes: The Fifties
7 Paint It, Black: The Dark Heart of the Psychedelic Sixties
8 All the Children Are Insane: The (Un)Holy Trinity: The Doors/Velvets/Stooges
9 Wam Bam Thank You Glam: The Dark Side of Glam Rock
10 Nostalgia for an Age Yet to Come: Proto Post-Punk
11 What Did You Do in the Punk Wars?
12 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 and the Ants
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: How Goth Took Root Very Differently...
20 All We Wanted Was Everything: Bauhaus
21 A Dark and Beautiful Playground: Killing Joke
22 Mutiny in Heaven: The Long Road out of Hell: Nick Cave
23 I Am Not Avant-Garde; I Am a Deserter: Blixa Bargeld and Einsturzende Neubauten
24 Voodoo Idols: The Ballad of Lux and Ivy: Exploring America's Underbelly with The Cramps and The Gun Club
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 West Coast Sound
29 Do You Believe in the West World? Theatre of Hate
30 A New Form of Beauty: Virgin Prunes
31 'Good Poetry Can Still Resonate Louder than a Thousand Guns': Rammstein for Grown-Ups: Laibach
32 At the Gates of Silent Memory: Fields of the Nephilim
33 Getting the Fear: 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: Getting on Board the Euro Goth Train
36 In the Flat Fields: Satellite Towns and Small Town England: The Second Coming of Goth... Suburbs, Satellites and Sensuality
37 Apocalypse Now! Goth's End Days

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This is the first comprehensive history of goth music and culture. Across more than 500 pages, John Robb explores the origins and legacy of this enduring scene, which has its roots in the post-punk era.

Drawing on his own experience as a musician and journalist, Robb covers the style, the music and the clubs that spawned the culture, alongside political and social conditions. He also reaches back further to key historic events and movements that frame the ideas of goth, from the fall of Rome to Lord Byron and the romantic poets, European folk tales, Gothic art and the occult. Finally, he considers the current mainstream goth of Instagram influencers, film, literature and music.

The art of darkness features interviews with Andrew Eldritch, Killing Joke, Bauhaus, The Cult, The Banshees, The Damned, Einstürzende Neubauten, Johnny Marr, Trent Reznor, Adam Ant, Laibach, The Cure, Nick Cave and many more. It offers a first-hand account of being there at the gigs and clubs that made the scene happen.

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