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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/

Spring is here once more; I cant wait to plant my gothic garden. I’ve grown many gothic plants over the years but some of the plants that are available now really highlight my gothic graveyard garden. I look for flowers that are dark, almost black but with rich texture like velvet. It is amazing how many varieties of black flowers I have found. I also have lots of vines because they can cover fences and other bare areas of my garden.

Here are some of my favorite dark gothic flowers and plants I’ve found, click on the links to see the pictures:
Black Angel Trumpet Datura-Gothic 10 Seeds

RARE KNIOLAS BLACK NIGHT MORNING GLORY 10 SEEDS

Sooty Sweet William 75 Seeds/Seed – Gothic

Black Nemophilia 50 Seeds/Seed – Gothic

King of the Blacks Carnation 50 Seeds -Dianthus

Bowles Black Viola 60 Seeds

Arabian Nights Hollyhock – 15 Seeds

To make a dramatic backdrop I have several gothic statues and sculptures as well as a gothic trellis in my gothic garden. When the fall comes they keep my garden looking good. If you buy statues for outdoor use they withstand frost and the freezing temperatures of winter. To give my statues and art gallery look some of my garden statues like my gargoyles are put on pedestals made of rock, stone or brick.

Here are some of the gothic garden art I have collected:
Cast Stone IMPISH IGOR GARGOYLE Garden Sculpture GOTHIC Statue

Boden Gargoyle Sentinel Sculpture

Gothic Pot Trellis

23″ GOTHIC URN

For gothic outdoor furniture I have a black outdoor iron biestro set with a couple of random iron chairs painted black. I also scatter random pillar candles which make my gothic garden a great place to hang out on a summer night.

I hope some of these ideas have inspired you to grow your own gothic garden too. Good luck with your gothic garden.
Gemolis

The city of Melbourne was picked for a upcoming horror movie site because of the cities gothic places. “Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark” is a muti-million dollar film being filmed this summer in Australia which will create 500 new jobs. This comes at a very good time for the city of Melbourne who could use the boon to boost it’s economy. The film staring Katie Holmes is scheduled to be released in 2011.

Most Lolita fashions come from direct from Japan but there are plenty of gothic lolita shops online that sell all kinds of lolita fashions.

Anime Festival & Fashion Show in New York http://www.babyssb.co.jp/ featuring Baby The Stars Shine Bright Gothic Lolita Line.

Angelic Pretty is a sweet lolita style website. http://www.jp-stores.com/welt/shop/we60157/

http://www.cosmates.jp/ mostly a Japanese costume shop sells all kinds of gothic lolita dresses.

If you are looking for elegent gothic lolita fashion visit http://www.metamorphose.gr.jp/english/

Candy Violet Lolita is an american company that has plus sizes http://www.candyviolet.com/

Times are tough with the financial situation and many gothic followers are wanting to recycle and reuse so the perfect solution to finding cheap gothic clothing is to search for it in places beyond your local mall or online goth shop. I have written a new article with the secrets to finding a new gothic wardrobe on a boot strapped budget… pardon the pun. For truley unique gothic clothing on the cheap please read http://www.hotgothicstuff.com/cheap-gothic-clothing.shtml

Please send me some ideas and pictures  after reading the article and I’ll see if I can get some pictures as well on my next cheap gothic shopping expedition.

Happy treasure hunting, Gemolis

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/

Some of us get sick on Oceanliner cruises like the Gothic Cruise so I though it only fair to mention other options for gothic vacations.

Dracula Tours to Transylvania is a haunted halloween vampire vacation is for any ages. The Romanian Halloween Holiday is October 27th – November 23rd, 2009. Learn about the novel Dracula and spending a night at Dracula’s Castle with a gala Halloween-style masquerade ball. This is the 11th year that this event will been going on.
The summer vampire vacation is July 9 – 16th, 2009 for those of you who cannot travel around halloween because of work or other plans.
To learn more about the Dracula Tours: http://www.dractour.com/index.htm

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