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 --- -------- 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 --- ----- 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 ------- 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 ------- ----- 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 ---------- alt.gothic ---the most important newsgroup of all!! alt.pagan alt.magick alt.sex.bondage ---self explanatory rec.music.industrial E-ZINES ------- 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