Marilyn Manson is not Goth I repeat, NOT Goth. But Manson's fans tend toward that morbidly pale look and an almost Victorian enchantment with gloom. Some, like Feuer, tended not to be popular in high school. That made me sad, so I found bands like Bauhaus and the Cure, and it was like, misery loves consolation. Those bands were singing about that and it made me feel better about myself.
Dark themes pervade the comic book industry too.
In one, Batman ruthlessly kills off bad guys to clean up the city. The other is a murder mystery in which someone keeps snuffing out super-heroes who are discovered to be flawed characters. They both had a very dark vision. Fashion is not exempt, either. In March of '96, the British designer Alexander McQueen showed his work in New York for the first time.