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These links are being continually updated and expanded.
If you have a site or know of a site you would like to see here,
please send the URL (with a suggested category and brief description) to:

terminal@arts.ucsb.edu


general

  • Dark Side of the Web
    Very thorough on-line research on a wide spectrum of dark topics.

  • Death Scenes
    Preview of a Los Angeles detective's photographic scrapbook. Text by Katherine Dunn.
    (Located at Feral House Press)

  • Internet Crime Archives
    A morbidly informative (and very gaudy) site with information on serial killers, mass murderers, doomsday cults, and more.

  • Secure the Shadow - Death and Photography in America
    An online overview of the recent book by Jay Ruby.

  • The Gothic Home Page
    Resouce listings for the black-clothed.

  • Death Is Dead
    m-angle-angel (Michael Boyce) considers the end of the end.
    (Located at CTheory)

    the word death

  • Death
    The word.

  • Cross Index-Death .:..dead link..:.


    studies

  • Association for Gravestone Studies
    " AGS is an international organization with an interest in gravemarkers of all periods."

  • East European mortality project

  • NDE, Near Death Experience

  • Morbitity and Mortality Weekly Report
    By the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.


    museums + tourism + exhibitions

  • Bones
    Pictures from a Slovakian church decorated with over 40,000 human bones.

  • The Mutter Museum [a 1st person account]
    "...medical models that are supposed to show the history of medicine. Yeah right. It's a freak show."

  • The Catacombs of Paris
    A tourof the sights.
    Located at the WebMuseum

  • Museo de las Momias
    Photos of a museum of exhumed corpses in Guanajuato, Mexico.

  • EMBBS Clinical Photograph Library
    "Warning: These images are intended for use by medical personnel only. Several imagesmay be disturbing to some viewers."

  • Grim Rides Hearse Club
    A car club.
    Includes a list of online skulls.


    dying + grief

  • Hospice at Home
    a program of choice enabling patients to live comfortably until they die

  • Emotional Support: Physical Loss, Chronic Illness, and Bereavement
    Gopher server of internet resources.

  • Resources for the Family Funeral
    Family and friends can provide a legal, dignified, and inexpensive funeral.

  • The Compassionate Friends
    An organization of local support groups for bereaved parents and siblings.

  • Zen Hospice Project Home Page

  • Death and Dying
    A personal home page by WEBster with links to related medical and care-giving resources.

  • CCP Remembers...
    A place to remember those that have experienced death, and to pray for others who lave lost loved ones.

  • Coping with Death
    From the Manitoba senior citizens' handbook.

  • Rivendell Resources -- GriefNet

  • Natural Death Centre

  • Crisis, Grief, and Healing: Men and Women (Tom Golden LCSW)

  • Bardo of Death Studies
    "Death and dying issues."

  • Egyptian Funerary Objects
    Located at the "Oriental Institute"


    mourning + memorials

  • An Auschwitz Alphabet
    "Alphabet represents my own selection (macabre word) of the most significant facets of life and death in Auschwitz. In twenty-six "slices", I have attempted to illustrate the entire human landscape of the camp: Who killed and who died? How did people survive? What happened to the language they spoke? What rules governed the perpetrators and theirvictims? Where was God?" - Jonathan Blumen

  • Dark Side of the Web - Cemeteries, Funerals, and Funeral Homes

  • Plan Your Epitaph Day
    A movement which tries to convince people to write clever epitaphs for themselves before someone else does.

  • The Obituary Page
    A long listing of brief obituaries. Open submissions.
    Also includes the The Virtual Memorial Garden and information on Paul McCartney's hoaxed death.

  • The World Wide Cemetery
    In English and French. (VRML)

  • Armstrong Funeral Home
    Amazingly informative/commercial site. Includes burial vault pages with a sickly green background.

  • Carlos - A Howard Funeral Home
    Commercial site.

  • Eternal Surf
    Includes ghost stories.

  • History of Cremation
    From 3000 B.C. to the present.

  • The Emily Project
    A found "Daily Reminder"....

  • The Garden of Remembrance
    (Located at DeathNET)

  • Webcorp -- New Orleans Cemetery Images
    Small images, large advertisments.

  • Lachase Cemetery (Wilde, Chopin, Morrison)
    Located at the World Wide Cemetery


    suicide + euthanasia

  • #Suicide - questions and answers
    A homepage for the #Suicide IRC channel. Has a small paper about a first person experience.

  • SA\VE - Sucicide Awareness, Voices of Education
    The mission of SA\VE is to educate about suicide and to speak for suicide survivors.

  • Seldom Painless .:..dead link..:.

  • Usenet - alt.suicide.holiday
    Talk of why suicides increase at holidays.

  • DeathNET
    A Right-to-Die information site.

  • Euthanasia World Directory
    Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization.


    death penalty

  • The Death Penalty Page

  • U.S. Supreme Court death penalty cases since 1990

  • Amnesty International: Against the Death Penalty

  • Death Penalty: The Ultimate Revenge
    Informative anti-capital punishment site (with an irritating forms layout).

  • Tyburn Tree: Public Exectuion in Early Modern England
    Devoted to Renaissance public executions. Contains dying speeches, documents, and a few images.


    deadpools

  • Dead Pool
    Where people bet who will die.

  • Dead Pool
    Also where people bet who will die.


    deathlists

  • Dead People Server
    Who died. Alphabetical search index.

  • Celebrity Death Links
    An un-updated listing of famous dead people.

  • Deceased Stars
    Listing of dead adult movie stars, with cause of death.


    pagan, witchcraft, magik

  • Rain Flowing to the Ocean: Death and Dying in Contemporary Neo-Paganism
    A paper which investigates paganism as a postmodern response to death. By Mary Ann Clark at Rice University.

  • Winter: The Occult on the Net
    Thorough list of links.

  • Inner Sanctum Occult Network

  • Students for the Occult

  • Syntaxiss Lodge of Ordo Templi Orientis

  • Shawn's Occult Resources
    A very large index.

  • Arachne's Web: Pagan/Wiccan Links

  • Robin's Links to the Mystical Internet - Web Pages

  • The Anti-Necronomicon FAQ
    What is the Necronomicon, really ?

  • Necronomicon
    Same information as Anti-FAQ, but not as pretty a layout.

  • Necronomicon Info Source
    Exhaustively informative.

  • Necronomion: Complete Online Text
    32k.

  • The Necronomicon and Other Grimoires
    At the H.P. Lovecraft page

  • Nyarlathotep Cthulhu Page .:..dead link..:.

  • Occult Sources

  • Ordo Agrentum Draconis

  • Santeria

  • The Voodoo Server
    From medicine to Zombies

  • The Works of Aleister Crowley

  • Chaos Cult of Cthulhu 33

  • Shamanism

  • The College of Thelema + The Temple of Thelema
    Egyptian-based ceremonialists.


    vampires, horror, gothic

  • Vlad the Impaler
    About the source of the "Dracula" legend.

  • Alsirat
    An on-line, open submission horror magazine.

  • Gargoyles Then and Now
    Informative.

  • Covenant with the Vampire
    Publicity site for "The Diaries of the Family Dracul", by Jeanne Kalogridis. Pretty.

  • The Vampire Chronicles Home Page
    text-only version

  • Vampyres Only

  • Singapore's Vampire Coven

  • The Cabinet of Dr. Casey - The Horror Page
    A popular horror-fan site.

  • Ghost's Links
    Links to horror sites.

  • Church of Satan

  • Hell: The Online Guide to Satanism

  • Lucifer's Realm

  • Satan's Playground Home Page
    Satainst information site.

  • Satan is Your Friend

  • The Ooga Booga Page
    There's picture of a bald man attacking a young woman.
    There's also picture of " the author, his gorgeous wife and their gorgeous child."

  • Olindo Haunted Home Page
    Fun for the kids, or something.

  • Page of the Living Dead
    Dedicated to the "Living Dead" films.

  • Faces of Death
    A gopher chronology of the film (detailing its fake-ness).


    halloween+dia de los muertos

  • All Hallow's Eve
    A few spooky links.

  • Day of the Dead (Mexico) .:..dead link..:.

  • Halloween Images and Clip Art
    Gopher archive.

  • Halloween
    Includes information about the origins of Halloween


    dark humor

  • Decapitate an Angel
    Decapitate an angel.

  • The Barney Fun Page
    Kill Barney. Choice of weapons. Comments from past "participants".

  • Russian Roulette
    Play Russian Roulette.
    Located at Deterrent Industries Industrial Theme Park.

  • The Morgue
    Gruesome pictures, childish humor.

  • Evolution in Action
    Listings of -- "a stupid person, doing something incredibly stupid and dying."

  • Ask Grandma Death Advice Column
    Some kind of sex joke (text).

  • Church of Euthanasia
    " If you encounter things that schock or offend you, don't complain to us, because you have been warned."
    Suicide, abortion, cannibalism, and sodomy.

  • DeathSend
    Choose an airline "death seat" on a page with broken forms. Copyrighted, for some reason.

  • Zombie Death Dungeon
    Intense involvement with the idea of "zombie". Modified pictures.

  • Den of the Dead
    More sex-death neuroticism. Cute.


    commercializaed death fetish

  • Bone Clones Animal Skeletons .:..dead link..:.

  • Tombstone Productions .:..dead link..:.

  • Bennett Funeral Coaches
    Hearses for sale.

  • BooVille CityLink
    It must be Booville. "Mystery smells".

  • Nightmare Factory
    Costume shop, haunted house, and gift shop.

  • Haunted Verdun Manor
    Interesting images from a haunted house near Dallas.
    Family fun.


    immortallity - other

  • Human Understood Reincarnation
    God is the Gravitational and electromagnetic field in which the Universe is situated. [sic]
    Subtitled as the: Resurrecting the Dead Project.

  • Anders Transhuman Page
    " Transhumanism is a philosophy that humanity can, and should, strive to higher levels, both physically, mentally and socially. It encourages research into such areas as life extension, cryonics, nanotechnology, physical and mental enhancements, uploading human consciousness into computers and megascale engineering. "

  • Seeker1's CyberAnthropology Home Page
    "Cyberanthropology"
    Includes information on virtuality, mind-things, meta-programming, modern primatives, and most related fetishes. Ever more gaudy.

  • The Visible Human Project
    By the National Library of Medicine.

  • Those Uncanny Ex-Men
    a Silicon Valley 'Metro' article about Extropians.
    (Located at 50 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time.)

  • The Alchemy Virtual Library
    A very large index of information (10 megs). Seems to have an emphasis on practice.

  • Association of Magicians and Outlaws
    Libertarian hacker pagans.

    ... :ascend: