Dark Shadows Supernatural Page

NOTICE: A couple of months ago, NBCi, where I had housed the majority of my Dark
Shadows Web pages and files, closed down its site to home pages. They did
this without giving me any notice, so now most of my links at fly.to/bat.net
are orphaned

I've just caught up on my "real" life enough to start thinking about what I
want to do with the site. What I need to know from you is what do you want to
see back on the site? It's going to take a lot of reformatting on my part, so
I need to know what you really care about!

Thanks!

Alane

[Blair] I am Nicholas Blair, (au 22kHz 21k) and I'll be your host on this tour of World Wide Web sites that have a legend or literary connection to the long-running daytime serial Dark Shadows.

As you probably know, the show's producers and writers - how shall I say - borrowed from a variety of sources on the supernatural.

Roots of Dark Shadows Storylines

Forefront among the storylines of Dark Shadows, of course, was that of the tale of Barnabas Collins, the reluctant vampire and hopeless romantic. I had a rather adversarial relationship with Barnabas. He was too much of a do-gooder for my tastes. At any rate, the character of Barnabas was drawn from vampire legends (HTML version) of Eastern Europe and from Bram Stoker's Dracula. (HTML version)	Adam, the artificial man, was created from human body parts and Barnabas' life force. Does this sound familiar? Mary Shelley, author of the novel Frankenstein(HTML version) would no doubt think so, too. Ah, Adam. I had such great hopes for that boy!	In 1970 Parallel Time, meek scientist Cyrus Longworth became the evil John Yaeger - my kind of guy - by drinking a potion. Fans of Robert Louis Stevenson will recognize this storyline from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. (HTML version)
	Both Quentin Collins and Chris Jennings suffered from a werewolf (HTML version) curse. When the moon was full, they turned from men into howling, hairy beasts.	Throughout the run of Dark Shadows, witchcraft (HTML version) was a common theme. You could even say that some people were known to lose their heads over it!

DS Gallery

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As a fire engulfs PT Collinwood, Barnabas sees Roxanne slip from his grasp. The Gallery contains graphics from the beginning of Dark Shadows through the end of 1970PT.

A Dark Shadows Moment

Julia Hoffman won't allow anyone to stake her Barnabas - not even another Julia Hoffman. This .MOV file is a 2 Meg download. Other video highlights from the show are periodically posted here!

[bats]

How well do you know Dark Shadows?

Match the correct literary works with the Dark Shadows storyline. Answers, with links, follow:

1.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë	A. 1841 Parallel Time
2.The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde	B. Aristede & Quentin at mill, 1897
3.The Turn of the Screw by Henry James	C.The Leviathans, 1969-70
4.The Pit & The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe	D. Ghosts of Gerard and Daphne, 1970
5.Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë	E. Victoria Winters, 1966
6.The Cthulhu Mythos by H.P. Lovecraft	F. Quentin's Portrait, 1897

[portrait]

Answers

1. Jane Eyre (HTML version)- E.

2. The Picture of Dorian Gray (HTML version)- F.

3. The Turn of the Screw (231K) - D.

4. The Pit & The Pendulum (15K)- B.

5. Wuthering Heights (670K) - A.

6. The Cthulhu Mythos (HTML version) - C.

Scoring

5-6 Correct: If your last name isn't Collins, it ought to be.

2-4 Correct: You've been spending way too much time at the Blue Whale and not paying enough attention to these storylines.

0-1 Correct: You disappoint me. And you won't like me when I'm disappointed. Just ask Angélique.

[Angelique]

Favorite Sci-Fi Web sites of Victoria Winters

DS FAQ Every bit of Dark Shadows trivia that you can imagine is here.

Fan Corner Find out what other fans thing about Dark Shadows.

Star Pages Learn more about your favorite Dark Shadows stars.

MultimediaGraphics and WAVs from your favorite DS memories.

Amazing Links. There are so many Dark Shadows pages in cyberspace, I've set up a separate Web page. UPDATED 12/99

Chattin' About Our Show

Dark Shadows Internet Chat. Talk in real time with other DS fans every Tuesday and Saturday at 10 p.m. ET. IRC channel #dark_shadows on the Undernet.
The Dominion BB from the Sci-Fi channel offers a Web page in which to post your thoughts on the show. The BB is located on the Classic Sci-Fi TV page.
Mailing List. To subscribe to the DS Mailing list, send e-mail to Majordomo@ece.uwaterloo.ca containing the following line in the body of the message: subscribe shadows

Dark Shadows Fan Fiction

Read the works of those who have joined the ranks of Sam Hall, Gordon Russell, Ron Sproat and other Dark Shadows writers. Original DS fan fiction is housed at Collinwood Revisited for all of the World Wide Web to see.

Chapter 9 has been posted!

If you are looking for a story that provides a followup to the Dark Shadows TV series, check outDarker Shadows by Jack Copet, a continuing online novel.

David Selby Postcards

Back in 1969, the Philadelphia Chewing Gum Co. issued a series of David Selby postcards. Those who are lucky enough to own one have a collector's item worth around $70. The rest of us can enjoy a virtual reality set of cards. Quentin Collins was introduced on Dark Shadows as a ghost and in a homage to The Turn of the Screw, whose ghost was named "Peter Quint."

Back into the Shadows?

And so ends Nicholas Blair's guide to the supernatural world of Dark Shadows. But is it really the end?

For as you should already know,Dark Shadows can NEVER die! (au 8kHz 88k)

Visitations

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Pomegranate Press has released "Dark Shadows Almanac - Millennium edition."

You can buy it for yourself at Amazon.com. Just click on the photo.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Judy Phillips and Michael Miozza for their assistance with this page and to © Dan Curtis Productions, Inc., without which the supernatural world of Dark Shadows would never have existed. Thanks also to Bonnie Bedford for the terrific GIF animations of the bloodbar and lightning bolts.