Title: Goth subculture - Wikipedia
Headings: Goth subculture
Goth subculture
Contents
Music
Origins and development
Gothic genre
Art, historical and cultural influences
18th and 19th centuries
Visual art influences
20th century influences
21st century
Characteristics of the scene
Icons
Fashion
Influences
Styling
Reciprocity
Critique
Films
Books and magazines
Graphic art
Events
Interior design
Sociology
Gender and sexuality
Identity
Media and academic commentary
Perception on nonviolence
School shootings
Prejudice and violence directed at goths
Self-harm study
See also
References
Citations
Bibliography
Further reading

Content: Among the music subcultures that influenced it were Punk, New wave, and Glam. But it also drew inspiration from B movies, Gothic literature, horror films, vampire cults and traditional mythology. Among the mythologies that proved influential in Goth were Celtic mythology, Christian mythology, Egyptian mythology, and various traditions of Paganism. The figures that the movement counted among its historic canon of ancestors were equally diverse. They included the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844‒1900), Comte de Lautréamont (1846‒1870), Salvador Dalí (1904‒1989) and Jean-Paul Sartre (1905‒1980). Writers that have had a significant influence on the movement also represent a diverse canon. They include Ann Radcliffe (1764‒1823), John William Polidori (1795‒1821), Edgar Allan Poe (1809‒1849), Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873), Bram Stoker (1847‒1912), Oscar Wilde (1854‒1900), H. P. Lovecraft (1890‒1937), Anne Rice (1941‒), William Gibson (1948‒), Ian McEwan (1948‒), Storm Constantine (1956‒2021), and Poppy Z. Brite (1967‒). 18th and 19th centuries
Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818) has come to define Gothic fiction in the Romantic period. Frontispiece to 1831 edition shown.