The Dark Side of the Net...
 
 
                      list updated 11/13/93
 
              list maintained by carriec@eskimo.com
 
 
     Please send additions/corrections asap. This list will be
updated as often as necessary (monthly or bi-monthly). 
 
     This is a list of gothic, vampire, occult, and various other
dark resources available on the Internet. The list includes IRC
channels, mailing lists, ftp sites, newsgroups, and E-zines. 
 
IRC CHANNELS
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The following channels are usually active 24 hours per day in IRC
and generally have several people (more than three) talking in
them. #goth, #gothic (currently taken over by a very annoying, op-
hogging bot), #vampires, #vampyres, #heathers for some reason has
lots of gothic people in it, #wicca, #pagan, #hellbound, #death,
#scream, #deth, #dark, #darkrealm, #cure, #bondage, #magick,
#witches, #lucifer, #flesh, #skinnypup.
 
FTP SITES
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ftp.maths.tcd.ie /pub/music/gothic ---contains tons of gifs,
interviews, info, and cool stuff about goth.
 
ftp.luth.se /pub/lyrics ---contains lyrics by many bands, some of
them gothic (Siouxsie, Sisters of Mercy, etc.) Many directories
currently empty (?).
 
rtfm.mit.edu /pub/lyrics ---large amount of lyrics by many
different types of bands, several of them gothic. 
 
wiretap.spies.com ---some info on occult ('Fringe') religions.
 
GOPHERS
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Bram Stoker's Dracula: The complete text can be found at several
gopher sites. 
 
The Dartmouth Dante project has online searchable works of Dante.
Gopher to Dartmouth College.
 
Strangeways --- the e-zine for Smiths/Morrissey fans is available
at Princeton University Press gopher, in the Internet Text area,
under Zines/Strangeways.
 
MAILING LISTS
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Generally, you e-mail the list, with "subscribe 
" in the text. Example "subscribe dark-
shadows carriec@eskimo.com"
 
chalkhills (The band XTC): chalkhills-request@presto.ig.com
 
cthulhu (H.P. Lovecraft): cthulhu-request@cs.qmw.ac.uk
 
dark-shadows (The TV Series): shadows-request@sunee.waterloo.edu
 
dark side of the net (this list): carriec@eskimo.com
 
deviants-request@csv.warwick.ac.uk
 
echoes (Pink Floyd) echoes-request@fawnya.tcs.com
 
gothic-stories-list (bloody stories): carriec@eskimo.com
 
janes-addiction: (The band) janes-addiction-request@ms.uky.edu
 
pagan: (the religion) pagan-request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
 
Philip K Dick: (The author) PKD-list-request@wang.com
 
Ravenloft (The AD&D game): rl-request@ais.org
 
Smiths-fans (the band): larryn@csufres.csufresno.edu
 
Twilight Zone (the e-zine): r.c.Karsmakers@stud.let.ruu.nl
 
Walkers-in-darkness (sufferers of bipolar disorder and depression):
walkers-request@world.std.com
 
 
NEWSGROUPS
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alt.gothic ---the most important newsgroup of all!!
alt.pagan
alt.magick
alt.sex.bondage ---self explanatory
rec.music.industrial
 
E-ZINES
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Corpse/Respondents: Gothic pen-pal zine. E-mail carriec@eskimo.com.
 
Strangeways E-zine is available at gopher/Princeton University
Press/Internet Text/Ezines/Strangeways.
 
---There is no good, no evil.. there is only flesh, and the
patterns to which we submit it---> Pinhead, Hellraiser III
 


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