Earlier this year, at Steampunk World’s Fair, I wound up inadvertently leading a panel on the overlap of goth and steampunk. Despite one originating in the early 1980s and the other being a fairly recent phenomenon, the two subcultures have a surprising amount of overlap—in everything from music to fashion to social scenes. There are quite a few similarities between the two scenes, but today I want to narrow in on one specific aspect that is at the root of both subcultures: the literature. Continue reading Steampunk vs. Gothic Literature