In Paint it Black, Gosha goes up to the heath at midnight to perform a summoning to the gothic tones of Bela Lugosi’s Dead by Bauhaus.
Here’s the opening of the movie The Hunger, where Bauhaus perform the song before an audience containing a pair of vampires played by David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve preparing to feast on Ann Magnuson and John Stephen Hill.
I’ve always had a soft spot for droney avant-garde music, and I went through a very big Goth phase when I was a teenager and into my early twenties, and these two came together in my love for this one album by the band Cindytalk.
Some of the music I listened to while writing Waking the Witch.
In the fantasy world of my new series, The Shining Continent, there are four different nations, each one with their own magic system built on power that flows from their own Source Font of magic: Vulpesh: The northernmost of the four nations. Vulpestrians evolved from the foxes that hunted in the forests beneath the Northern…
Patrician, entitled, glamorous, and ruthless in the pursuit of power, Euphemia Graham is a sorcerer and master-spy with her lips pressed to the ear of the Crown.
I didn’t realize I was a Goth until I moved to the US to go to NYU. Growing up in the UK in the early 80’s the music of bands like Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, and Cocteau Twins was just what was played on the radio. I remember walking into the dining hall freshmen…
Kate Bush is one of my all-time favorite performers.