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• Bat's Day in the Fun Park - This event where tons of goths gather at Disneyland, takes place November 8, 2008.

• Bats Day in the Fun Park, at LiveJournal

• Bats Day in the Fun Park Updates, at LiveJournal

• Bats Day in the Fun Park, at MySpace

• B-Fest - B-movie festival near Chicago in January.

• Blackfield Festival - Gelsenkirchen, Germany. July 4-6 2008. Bands include Icon of Coil, Nitzer Ebb, Lacrimosa, Cruxshadows, BlutEngel, and Assemblage 23.

• Blackfield Festival, at MySpace

• Black Sun Festival - Yearly in New Haven, Connecticut

• Black Sun Festival, at LiveJournal

• Black Sun Festival, at MySpace

• The Clockwork Ball - Saturday, May 31st in Carrboro, NC. A steampunk event with bands, vendors, and DJs.

• C-13 Portland, at LiveJournal

• Carnival of Souls 2001 - A gothic/fetish event October 21 in Derby, UK.

• Castle Party - A gothic festival in Europe in July 2001.

• Chiller Theatre - Horror toys, models, and films, held in New Jersey in the spring.

• Cinema Wasteland - Horror memorabilia in October in Ohio.

• CineMuerte - A film festival held in Vancouver, BC, Canada in July.

• Cirque Macabre - March 17, 2007, in Raleigh, NC.

• CocteauFest 2005 - Fans of The Cocteau Twins gather in Toronto to hear Cocteau Twins cover bands, dance and meet each other.

• Convergence - The annual gothic convention, held in a different city every year. This page hosts the annual voting.

• Creepfest - An independent horror film festival October 19 in Los Angeles.

  Cure Tribute "Hanging Gardens" Picnic - July 27 in the UK. No, The Cure don't attend, but Cure fans gather to picnic in the place where "The Hanging Gardens" video was filmed.

• Dances of Vice Festival - A festival happening in NYC February 8-9, 2008. Rasputina will play, there's a Neovictorian costume ball, vendors, DJs, and art vendors. There's also a Livejournal community for the Dances of Vice Festival too.

• Dark Arts Festival - June 25-27, 2004, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

• Dark City Edinburgh - A music festival in May in Scotland.

• Dark City Edinburgh LiveJournal

• Dark Shadows Festival - For fans of the TV series. Held every year in New York or LA.

• DC Zombie Lurch - Zombies march on Washington DC en masse in late October.

• Dead by Dawn - A horror film festival held in the spring in Edinburgh, Scotland.

• Disneyland's Haunted Mansion Holiday - Etixland's info and images of last year's Nightmare Before Christmas-themed event.

• Dracula's Ball - Every fall, in Philadelphia.

• Dracula's Ball, at LiveJournal

• DragonCon Gothic - Goth and horror events at DragonCon in 2007.

• Drop Dead Festival - Late October in New York City. This is a horror and deathrock music festival.

• Drop Dead Festival LiveJournal

• Drop Dead Festival at MySpace

• Eccentrik Festival - A goth music festival in Raleigh, North Carolina on October first. Bands include Voltaire, Bella Morte, and The Last Dance.

• Fantasm 2003 - A sci fi/horror con in Atlanta April 17-20.

• Festival of the Dead - A Halloween ball in Salem.

• Frightvision 2001 - Held in Ohio in April.

• Gerardmer Festival of Fantastic Arts - A horror fest in France in January.

• Ghost Train - A goth band from California.

• The Goth Cruise

• GothicFest 2005 - A gothic festival in Villa Park, Illinois, on September 17. Bands include Grigori3, Hanzel und Gretyl, and Slick Idiot.

• Goth Cruise, at LiveJournal

• Goth Prom DC - The 11th annual DC Goth Prom takes place Thursday, May 22. DJs include Scary Lady Sarah, Kelowna, Shade and DJ Spider. Performers include tribal belly dancers Romka and tribal industrial dancers Cerastes.

• Gothic Festival 2008 - Waregem, Belgium, July 25-27 2008. Bands include Fields of the Nephilim, Combichrist, Cruxshadows, Clan of Xymox, VNV Nation, and Trisomie 21.

• Halloween 25 - A convention October 31 in Pasadena for fans of the movies, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first film.

• Halloween Film Fest - Stuttgart, Germany.

• Haunted Mansion Holiday - Another page about the Disneyland Nightmare Before Christmas event.

• Industrial Festival - Yearly in France.

• Labyrinth of Jareth - A fantasy masquerade ball that lasts a whole weekend. July 10-12, 2008 in Hollywood, CA.

• Labyrinth of Jareth - The Livejournal for the festival.

• HP Lovecraft Film Festival - This takes place in October in Portland, Oregon.

• The Masque and Veil Festival

• M'era Luna Festival - Hildesheim, Germany, August 9-10, 2008. Bands include Front 242, VNV Nation, Apocalyptica, Apoptygma Berzerk, Moonspell, Combichrist, Cinema Strange, and Elegant Machinery.

• M'era Luna Festival, at LiveJournal

• M'era Luna Festival, at Wikipedia

• Monster Bash - A monster/horror convention held in June in Pittsburgh.

• NetGoth.Org.Uk - Fantastic United Kingdom events calendar.

• 999 Happy Haunts Ball - More info on the Disney NMBC event.

• Ravenwood Festival 2008 - Arsenic and Gears. Saturday, July 12, 2008 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Bands include Abney Park, Voltaire, and Vernian Process. DJs include DJ EternalDarkness, and DJ Genesis.

• Saints and Sinners Film Festival - August in Florida.

• Salon Convention - A Victorian convention September 22, 2007 in Somerset, NJ. Voltaire will perform, along with Holly Black and others. There's a http://community.livejournal.com/salonconvention/"> Salon Convention LiveJournal community too.

• Silver Scream - A horror stage show coming to London in 2002.

• Scream Fest LA - October in Los Angeles.

• Scully Marathon - X-files fan-run charity benefits.

• Shriekfest - Horror film festival held in Los Angeles in October.

• Summer Darkness - An ambient/industrial/noise/neofolk festival August 6-10 in Utrecht, Netherlands. Bands include Echo and the Bunnymen, Clan of Xymox, Gotterdammerung, Irfan, Combichrist, Apoptygma Berzerk, and many more.

• Terra Gotha - A goth music festival in southwest Holland in April 2003.

• Texas Frightmare Weekend 2007 - June 22-24, 2007 in Dallas. Special guest George Romero; Doug Bradley from Hellraiser.

• Tokyo Gothic & Lolita Tour - April 11-18, 2008 in Tokyo. A guided tour for American Lolitas to the birthplace of the Lolita style.

• Twilight Tales - Weekly horror readings at a pub in Chicago, IL.

• Vampires Masquerade Ball - March 24, 2007, in Portland, Oregon.

• Vampires Masquerade Ball at MySpace

• Wave-Gotik Treffen - June 2007 in Leipzig, Germany.

• Wave-Gotik-Treffen at LiveJournal

• Wave-Gotik Treffen: Americans in Leipzig

• Wave-Gotik-Treffen: Sadgoth's Guide to WGT - A guide to getting to Leipzig, the WGT festival, maps, links, planning tips, and a message board. Very helpful resource!

• Whitby Gothic Weekend - Held in April and October, in the UK.

• Whitby - The LiveJournal community for Whitby Gothic Weekend.

• World Horror Convention 2003 - April 17-20 in Kansas City, Missouri.

• World Horror Convention 2004 - April 8-11, in Phoenix, AZ.

• World Horror Convention 2007 - Toronto, Canada

• World Horror Convention 2008 - March 27-30, 2008 in Utah