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    GOING GOTHIC HOW TO TELL THE GOTH-IEST STORY EVER

    Oct 01, 2021 3 minutes
    By Cathleen Davies

    WHAT DO DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN, AND YOUR SISTER’S LACE-UP COMBAT BOOTS ALL HAVE IN COMMON? If your answer was “they’re super cool,” you’d be right! But if your answer was “they’re all part of the gothic’tradition,” you’d be even righter.

    Being gothic wasn’t always about loud songs and weird makeup. Long before Siouxsie and the Banshees, some writers in the 18 and 19 century decided they were bored with books about ordinary people and their everyday dramas. All those stories had been done

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