An interesting read and a book that would defiantly look good in the home!

‘As someone who absolutely adores horror, Halloween, monsters, and the macabre, I’ve spent years transforming every aspect of my life - from what I wear to how I decorate my home - into a cozy little world where every day is Halloween.’

You get to learn how to make spooky objects, make drinks such as The Bloodbath and where to travel to experience some spooky places.

Chapter 10 was fun!! Creepy Christmas.

I liked this book. It's full of ideas of how to make your home Gothic. It's great for if you're a goth and want your home to be furnished in a way that clearly shows your aesthetic or even if you are looking for ideas on how to decorate just for Halloween.
All the projects are really simple and straight forward so if like me you're not very good at arts and crafts you should still be able to get good results.
I will refer back to this book when I need some inspiration.

Absolutely great tips and photography to match. Highly recommend for anyone looking to add more gothic style and living to their lifestyle

2-2.5 stars
With thanks to NetGalley and Quarto for the arc.
Unfortunately this book really wasn’t for me. A slim volume (coming in at 105 pages), with lots of photographs, there isn’t much substance to this book and it reads more like an extended magazine article. To be fair I suspect that is exactly how it’s meant to be viewed, as a light d-i-y guide to creating a hammer-horror pastiche rather than any kind of in-depth look at gothic style, and as such it succeeds in it’s goal adequately.

I enjoyed this book a lot. It had a bunch of pretty pictures and I liked the DIY and the designs shown. It's a great book for people who love Halloween and just want to keep it year around!

I’ll bet you ten American dollars that is not the author’s real name. C’mon, bet me.

A decor book for people going for an eerie/goth vibe….that is not me AT ALL, but I thought it would be fun to look through.

Author appears to have a YouTube show called “Gothic Homemaking” and he styles himself to look like a vampire. Shows you how to make some decorations (which, a la, Martha, will turn out looking like complete crap), and also includes some recipes. Come make your apartment look like the set of “The Munsters!”

Aurelio Voltaire is a musician and 'gothic homemaker' who published a book of decorating ideas to create 'macabre style' home design. The decoration are very crafty and look like dollar store items. Besides which, most of the book appears to be available for free on his social media posts. For those who follow Voltaire, this is probably a reasonable purchase, but otherwise, do not recommend. Voltaire also includes many crafty items and pictures from Tim Burton films, and there are much better books for those interested in crafting Burtonesque.

Okay, this isn’t goth the way I remember goth but it’s a very cute book by a charming author.

A perfect offering for the crafty goth in your life, there are a lot of fun crafts and recipes in these pages.




Thank you to Epic Ink and NetGalley for the PDF

This is a great book on Gothic Homemaking and a few other, often overlooked, aspects of the gothic lifestyle. I especially appreciated the decorating ideas and the section cataloguing other members of the subculture. It really brought out that there are many ways to go about making the home into a cozy dark space. I would advise the projects in this book be used more by adults or supervised young people since many projects require the use of tools (saws, drills, etc.) and some chemicals. The travel section also gave a great look on some lesser-known dark aspects of many cultures. There are ideas here that everyone can draw from, not just those of a dark subculture. My only real complaint is that I want more.

This is quite a fun book that is brimming with ideas to decorate and entertain in a spooky, gothic style. The author is likable and he gives ideas for decorating, drinks, recipes, holidays, parties, you name it. There are also crafts and all kinds of inspiration. This is not my style but I found it to be a great read with all kinds of spooky inspiration.

I read a temporary digital copy of this book for review.

Gothic Life: The Essential Guide to Macabre Style is a fantastic book filled to the coffin lid with great decorating and entertaining ideas. I was enchanted by the author's dialogue. The craft, decor, and recipe instructions were easy to follow and I can't wait to try some of them out.

I'm not goth but I do have gothic tendencies. I'm a lover of everything and anything skull or skeleton. I have several box-store purchased skeletons hanging around the living room. One is a pirate, one is an angel, and one is just a skeleton. I also have bat and dragon skeletons. I have so many pieces of clothing with skulls and skeletons on them that there is rarely a day I don't wear skulls or skeletons in some way.

This book isn't just for the gothic or dark at heart. I can see creating some of the decoration ideas in different colors and schemes than provided in the book. The ideas are endless!

Very cool book for everyone interested in the gothic aesthetic. It gives a 360 degrees view of the topic and allows everyone to try out the ideas, because they are simple but very aesthetic

if you are someone who thinks that the Halloween lifestyle needs way more airtime, this is the book for you! Lovers of all things Gothic will certainly appreciate having this as a beautiful addition to their coffee tables!

Visually, this book is STUNNING! The author has a YouTube channel 'Gothic Homemaking', and this book encompasses all that wonderment in a delightful permanent record that can be revisited time and time again. With chapters/ sections including shopping, making your own gothic decor, and entertaining (imagine the best dressed gothic table, where attention to gothic detail is utterly on point!), sthis book cant fail to appeal to fans of this lifestyle.

Additional content includes spooky, yet scrumptious cocktail recipes (in addition to food that looks utterly gothic!). Ever wondered how to embrace the gothic in the brighter summer months? This is demystified with some fantastic ideas. Even Christmas is explored with a devilishly dark twist. We are even treated to a travel guide - no gothic stone is left unturned in this fantastic guide.

Some fabulously dark content that I couldn't fail to recommend, and personally look forward to exploring in more detail!

My (darkest) thanks to NetGalley, author and publisher for the opportunity to review this book in exchange for an advance copy.

The book is very aesthetically pleasing! The cover and title were what drew me in. The fonts, photos, and colors work together cohesively with the topics covered in the book. Each section was well-explained and thoroughly detailed. The abundance of photos, especially for the DIY instructions and recipes, helps make this beginner friendly as well! Great informative book for those interested in any shape or form.

This is different than what I'm used to, but I'm dipping my toes into finding myself and this was perfect!

When I was about 12, I was obsessed by a comic book in my local library called Oh My Goth, by a mysterious author called Voltaire. This comic was funny and dark, and I think I was the only person who ever got it out of the library cos I used to renew it constantly. This was before I had easy access to the internet, and could learn more about this wonderful book and the world of the goth. As I've grown up, and kept being a tangential goth from my interested stemming from the 90s, I've kept up with Aurelio Voltaire's music, fantastic social media and Youtube precense about gothic life, and I was extremely excited for this book when I heard it was coming out.

This book does not disappoint - the photos are magical and the context of "goth" is exactly what I expect. The colours and font choices are perfect, written in Voltaire's humourous and clever style. I LOVE the instructions for making gothic homewares, I will absolutely be buying a physical copy of this book. I loved it and I am so grateful I got the chance to read it early.

This was such a fun time! I recommended it to all of my friends that live the gothic lifestyles and they also enjoyed it.

Okay, this is not a book that I would pick up if I had to pick only 5 books from the book store or library. If you have read my other reviews, you are probably familiar with my saying that I would not typically read a book about gothic/macabre lifestyle, but for my work and out of personal curiosity, I requested this book.

The decoration instructions (I would like to call them recipes), the pictures, the colour scheme and the insights of the author are awesome.

This is a 4-5 star book for those with a gothic lifestyle, especially newbies, and those who are looking into more inspiration and DIY, design, crafts and decorations.

Though, anyone in set and production design, art departments, or who are researching gothic art, lifestyles and/or writing gothic stories might find this book inspiring and useful.