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Moonhead -> RE: Help! Need goth gifts (6/14/2011 4:53:21 AM)
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Few suggestions nobody else has mentioned yet.
A lot of goths like dollies, and there are a couple of manufacturers that make gothed up dolls to suit. Living Dead Dolls and Bleeding Edge Goths are the two main brands for these. Something like that might go down well.
I can't remember the brand name, but there's a goth parfumiers somewhere on the internet. They do a range of expensive colognes, aimed at the goth market. (There's a Neil Gaiman scent, an Anne Rice one, couple of Lovecraftian things*, like that.) Google might turn them up.
There is other vampire fiction besides Twillight. I can think of a few books it might be worth looking for: Kim Newman's Anno Dracula has recently been reprinted, and while it contains none of the romance elements of sparkly Mormon vampire films, it's the ultimate steampunk vampire novel with walk on parts for every Victorian fictional character, or vampire who might have passed through Victorian London, going. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Comte De Saint Germain series started before Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire was published, and covers the same ground, while being far less crap. George RR Martin's Fevre Dream might also appeal, though it's a far less pleasant and romantic book. If you suspect that she's amenable to vile (rather than romantic) vampires, Poppy Z brite's Lost Souls, Dominic McDonagh's Pretty Young Things, Anne Bilsson's Suckers and Yvonne Navarro's Afterage (the ultimate vampire power fantasy) are all worth a look.
There are also goth comics. Voltaire's Oh My Goth! collection (not the dodgy YA novel of the same title) is hysterically funny, but might not be in print at the moment. There are a lot of others, but most of the rest I can think of are overlong series, rather than one offs, and you might as well get somebody a bag of crack as the first volume of a big set of graphic novels for a present. I'm sure there's going to be a few more one offs, though.
*(Which you'd expect to smell vile, but they aren't that anal about autheticity. [;)])
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