Witches, vampires, eerie creatures, transience, ghosts, cemeteries, fear and darkness: Goths love stories with a dark touch. The scene is particularly fond of scary and horror literature. This is where ideas for outfits are stolen, this is where mysterious names are picked up and this is where people sit back in readings and enjoy the cold chills. The most popular stories are probably those about Dracula and other vampires - for example, Lestat and Louis by Anne Rice. Nosferatu is also a household name. The "Symphony of Horror" was released as a feature film in 1922. The story was peppered with vampires, occult symbols, romance and music. Goths also love horror stories about ghosts, the supernatural and the mysterious.
Stories of our time also have a great influence on the black scene. They don't even have to be in books. "The Crow", for example, is based on a comic book. The story about Eric Draven, who dies on Halloween and - accompanied by a crow - returns from the dead to take revenge, is very well known in the Black scene. Eric Draven's outfit from the film version has been copied many times in the gothic scene. Goths also love stories about the Addams Family or stories from computer games, such as "Alone- in-the-Dark". Classic gothic horror stories in the magazine genre are, for example, John Sinclair, Demon Killer or Professor Zamorra.
