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The gothic band Alien Sex Fiend from the UK has just released some new dates for Europe. 

Friday May 21st – La nuit des Ombres Grenoble, France

Sunday May 23rd – Wave-Gotik-Treffen Leipzig, Germany

Monday May 24th – Pena Festayre Paris, France

Sunday July 18th – Gothic Festival Waregem, Belgium

If you’d like to travel abroad in tour busses in Romania to view the setting of the legendary Dracula era then this is a trip you won’t want to miss. The tour includes the Evangelical Church in Sibiu, built in 1300, which contains burial vaults connected to both Dracula and the legend of Frankenstein. You’ll see many castles on the tour as well as very old buildings. The highlight of the tour is the Monster Bash Masquerade Ball, in the dungeon at Dracula’s Castle atop the Romanian alps in Piatra Fantanele. The Dracula vacation tour includes airfare, accomodations, meals, admissions, special guests, seminars and attractions and of course parties.

Your plane will land in Romania and your first night will be spent in a spooky hotel (beautiful remote castle) on an isolated island in Bucharest. I don’t want to spoil the whole trip for you so do check out the details of a very fun vacation at http://www.dractour.com/summeritinerary.htm 

Monster mania hits Connecticut again this year and Freddy Krueger is back along with many guests to give you a horror-ful time! Okay maybe that was a bad pun but if you enjoy movie horror then this is a must see. Monster Mania is being held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel 100 Berlin Road, Cromwell, CT on June 12th – 14th. Special guest stars include:

• Bruce Campbell – ASH
• Robert Englund – Freddy Krueger
• Derek Mears – Jason & The Hills Have Eyes
• Michael Bruce and Neal Smith from Alice Coopers Billion Dollar Babies – special performance
• 25th anniversary reunion with stars from Nightmare on Elm Street

for more information visit http://www.monstermania.net/

Londons GhostsKeeping with our theme of Gothic type vacations how would you like to go to England? Ghost tour is a week long travel adventure in England. Ghost Tour is a professionally escourted, guided tour that visits haunted sites in Great Britain London, York, Essex, Lincoln, Whitby, Nottingham, Cambridge and Norwich and proves to be ghostly fun for people who follow the supernatural and ghosts. Visit Londons ghosts and haunted places by visiting: http://www.ghostour.com/

Gothic Beauty magazine and Vampirefreaks have teamed up to sponsor a Gothic Cruise on Carnival Cruiselines for October 11th-18th, 2009. The annual Goth Cruise and masquerade ball was first established in 1989. This year the following 4 bands will be playing 2 hour sets aboard the ship: The Cruxshadows, State of the Union Modulate Cruciform Injection
The Goth Cruise Vacation includes everything you could ask for including alcohol, drinks, food, concerts, fashion shows, parties, more parties and an interactive viewing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

To read more about the Gothic Cruise trip go to http://www.gothiccruise.com/index.html

Hi, my name is Liz Ohanesian and I’m a writer in Los Angeles. I saw Hot Gothic Stuff and wanted to send you a link to a story I did for the LA Weekly.

Last weekend, I had the chance to cover Gothla US, which is a gothic belly dancing festival/convention sort of thing. The performances and costumes were outstanding. Here’s the story. There’s also a slideshow that is linked at the top of the page.

http://blogs.laweekly.com/style_council/events/dancing-the-dark-side-at-gothl/

I hope you enjoy it.

Thanks for reading.

Liz