DARK ART:
Laurie Lipton
Stunning black and white drawings, charcoal and pencil on paper. Her artwork features skeletons, odd people, old people and haunted dolls houses. I love this gallery sooo much.
Michele Lynch
Michele's mixed media art includes oil paintings, sculpted dark dollies, and jewelry. Steampunk influences, octopus girls, mermaids and other incredibly creative pieces of art.
http://michelelynchart.blogspot.com/
N.C. Winters
Artwork and comics, mostly monsters, with some rayguns and robots thrown in too. My favorite here is Hysteria.
DARK SHOPS:
DeadSpider
Adorable dollhouse-sized poison bottles and potions. Plus full-sized deadly looking potion labels and potion bottles to decorate your kitchen for Halloween or year-round demented decor.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/deadspider
Little Dead Things
An Etsy shop selling cool zombie candles, Day of the Dead sugar skull candles, zombie refrigerator magnets and a Darth Vader calavera.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/littledeadthings
Quarantine Studio
They sell prepainted statues and collectibles based on zombies, Death Dealer, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Ghastly Graves, Mars Attacks and other horror staples.
http://www.quarantinestudio.com/
Skullebrities
"Rest in parody." T-shirt designs based on parodies of dead celebrities, including generic skeletons; Michael Jackson; Marilyn Monroe; Tupac; and if I'm not mistaken, Che Guevara.
GOTH LIFESTYLE:
The Gothic Imagination
The incredibly well respected interdisciplinary forum at University of Stirling, Scotland. It focuses on scholarly gothic pursuits. This incredibly important resource offers a Masters in literature. Besides a news section and blog, there's sections for reviews and interviews.
The Haunted Gardens
"A magical, mystical menagerie of earthly frights and delights." A "goth gardening" type site. Not updated very often, sadly, but when it is, it features high quality posts on weird, twisted, blackened plants you can grow to give your garden a haunted aspect. Recent posts include Toadshade; Snake's Head Iris; and Spooky Salix Gracilistylus.
http://thehauntedgardens.blogspot.com/
GOTH MUSIC:
Dark Mother Media
Dark Mother radio, plus music reviews (and the occasional review from other media, including movies) and a store selling Dark Mother Media t-shirts.
http://www.darkmothermedia.com/
The Deadfly Ensemble
I don't quite know how to describe their music. They say: "Dusty Attic Art Operetta." They're from both NYC and Los Angeles.
http://thedeadflyensemble.com/
The Deadfly Ensemble, on Facebook
The Deadfly Ensemble on MySpace
HORROR GENRE:
B-Movie Cast
A podcast and forum devoted to B-movies, cult movies, horror and exploitation films. There's also a photo gallery, newsletter, and community.
Dreadful Tales
Horror reviews and commentary from a group of a few friends addicted to the genre. "Horror in literature and entertainment."
Evil Dead News
News about the Evil Dead series of movies; plus info on the Evil Dead: the Musical, currently playing in Las Vegas.
Mortal Gore
A horror review website. They cover movies, video games, books, and TV. Ignore the music news, as they cover horrifically bad metal music. There's also a "Gore gallery" and collection of short horror stories.
Terror Transmission
A horror podcast. I'm so impressed at how many episodes they've consistently cranked out!
http://terrortransmission.com/
STEAMPUNK:
Myke Amend
A steampunk and fantasy artist's gallery. Besides paintings, he also creates sculptures and engravings.
Steamed!
"Writing steampunk fiction." Tips and info, plus reading lists and assistance for writers of steampunk.
http://ageofsteam.wordpress.com/
--Carrie Carolin
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