I felt it was time that there was a pop culture book about goth like Jon Savage had done with punk with Englands Dreaming. A book that explained the art in the darkness, put the cult into culture, deep dived into the core of the darker end of post-punk and explained how every generation deals with its blues by embracing goth's extended history from the fall of Rome, European folk lakes, romantic poets, dark artists and architecture before coalescing int he post-punk period... (John Robb)