Editors’ introduction

This introduction offers a way into Punk & Post-Punk’s Special Issue on ‘Goth Histories’. It points to recent traces of the subculture in popular culture and recognises key trends in a relatively vibrant scholarship. The issue was stimulated by a discussion between the two editors as to the whys and wherefores of this at a conference of the Subcultures Network in April 2023. The collected articles hope to give some sense of the different ways by which the Gothic retains a punk-inflected presence into the twenty-first century. Long may it continue to haunt our mindscapes, mediascapes and landscapes.