It is an unbelievable 36 years since the Gothic Society was founded in August 1990. It ran for eight and a half years, ending in December 1998 after 35 magazines and numerous other publications.
I was Managing Editor, and as such I was the one who gave the Society the kiss of death because other pressing matters had come to claim my interest and attention. The days of the small press were drawing to an end with the advent of the internet. Everything was changing, including the newspapers in which we used to run our adverts, and the economics of running the Society (it was always a fine balancing act so far as finance was concerned) were becoming more difficult by the day.
I went off to do other stuff of an increasingly academic nature, having entombed the Gothic Society’s publications, letters, and ephemera in suitably mould-green boxes. A quarter of a century later (i.e. about two years ago), I dug it all up and started looking at it again.
It was like going back to a different era, the world has changed so much. The Gothic Society was resolutely pre-internet, and hitherto it has had only a scattered presence in the digital world where old fans (or less than fans) have revived parts of it. Now I have resolved to bring the Gothic Society properly into the digital age. Hence this website and our ONLINE EXHIBITION
Jennie Gray (latterly, Jennie Mack Gray), January 2026.
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