Links

  • The Dark Shadows Wiki The first place to turn for basic information about Dark Shadows
  • Dark Shadows Every Day Danny Horn’s great blog. Between 2013 and 2021, he discussed episodes 210-1245 and many other topics besides. Following along with it when we watched Dark Shadows during the Covid lockdowns, I first got the idea of blogging about the show.
  • Dark Shadows Before I Die Between 2016 and 2021, John and Christine Scoleri gave detailed summaries of each episode, illustrated with many screenshots and followed by commentary in the form of a dialogue between them. Still posts occasionally.
  • Dark Shadows Episode by Episode Between July 2015 and May 2016, Chad Moore wrote capsule discussions of the first 25 episodes.
  • Dark Shadows Episode Guide Nick Brobeck preserves Tony Lew’s dialogue-heavy summaries of the episodes
  • Forever Dreaming: Dark Shadows. Transcripts of the episodes. Lots of intrusive ads.
  • Snark Shadows A tumblelog where “Wack’doria Winters,” if that was indeed her name, posted summaries of episodes 210-262 between May 2014 and April 2015
  • Dark Shadows from the Beginning From 2017-2021, Marc Masse went into depth about episodes 1-76. Includes some intensely controversial material, and is usually set to private.
  • Shadows on the Wall: An Online Fanzine, where Laramie Dean shares wonderful things
  • Dark Shadows News, where 601 items related to the show were posted between 2008 and 2016
  • Terror at Collinwood Podcast and blog.
  • Me on Twitter Mostly about updates to this blog. Probably the second fastest way to reach me- leaving comments here is fastest.
  • Me on BlueSky. Mirrors the Twitter account.
  • Me on Tumblr Automatically posts about updates to this blog. Originally an index of my comments on Dark Shadows Every Day, when that blog finished I started posting pictures and links there that reminded me of Dark Shadows. That in turn gave rise to this site.
  • Dark Shadows on Tubi TV A free streaming app where you can watch Dark Shadows.

23 thoughts on “Links”

  3. Would you mind if I compare you to Homer? Each time I read “well-meaning governess”, “high-born ne’er-do-well”, or “flighty heiress”, I’m reminded of “wine-dark sea”, “rosy-fingered dawn,” or “white-armed Hera.”

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    1. Gosh, how flattering! I guess I was thinking of Homer when I decided to use the same descriptive epithets over and again.

      The character names are dangerous when you’re blogging episode by episode. When you just drop names in without explanation, the reader can feel lost very quickly. I find myself starting to feel that way when I read the other sites, even when the names are “Vicki,” “Liz,” etc. But you can’t analyze every character’s arc in every post. Even a sentence of discussion about a character’s past can bog you down. So Homeric epithets seem like the best way to go to keep the posts accessible.

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      1. I’ve completed the watch of all eps and your blog proved a fine, amusing guide. If I ever post such a blog (I won’t) there would appear a tag Ministry of Distinctive Walks featuring Roger, Quentin, Willie, Angelique, and Jeb because each has a lanky, sashaying or slouchy quality. Jeb in particular launches his with one shoulder first, nearly sidling along! I don’t find much-filmed Barnabas, Vicki, Julia, or Burke to be so distinctively parading.

        Notes from original watch, in which we couldn’t count on getting home from school fast enough to catch all of every episode, much less every episode:

        1. Never noticed how close actors got to each other in scenes, to stay within frame, I guess? It’s Middle-East-close.
        2. Backacting, lacked a name for that before blogs, though it was noticed.
        3. We’d wonder why actors disappeared, such as Sandor for long stretches, without considering other roles.
        4. We weren’t much of a 16, Teen Beat or movie mag crowd, so the disappearances, recastings, and private lives of the cast remained unknown, for me, until Christmas 2024 when I began watching and reading.
        5. Finally, mean-spirited teeny-bopper me recalls that we denigrated the acting chops of a few actors. 2025 me bows and curtsies to the talents of Nancy Barrett, Thayer David, and John Karlen, in alphabetical order. The rest of the cast’s abilities held no surprises these eons later, but gosh! Those three evoked such admiration in every role.

        I’ve finished knitting my bedspread that I began about one year back, all the while watching old TV shows such as Perry Mason and Dark Shadows. I feel like I’ve graduated a college course in how to make a soap opera and plan to continue reading your blog; I hope your holiday weekend goes well.

        Sincerely,

        pronker

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  6. I’m quaffing your fine blog like a Chateau Lafite Rothschild and am currently about 283 in. Here’s an attempt to show the afghan and my fam’s 1969 visit to see Barnabas. I may have mentioned this before, but I’m the one with the long dark hair, Eldest Sister is the blonde, and Jonathan is charming as it seems the man always was:

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      1. Ah, it’s a fond memory. Our mother wrote on the back of the photo “October 1969” so someplace online there may be a record of his CA visit. It’s a polaroid photo, nicely backed with one of those hard cards that you stuck your thinner original photo on after waiting for a minute or so for it to develop and then peeling it from its developer. I can still smell that fluid.

        The horse pasture likely has been developed by now, but at the time, we drove through a gate into the barbed wire enclosed pasture, parked, and lined up to meet “Barney,” as Eldest Sister called him, though not to his face. I remember that she called him handsome, he said “Thank you” and if I said anything to him, I cannot recall it. The photo sort of suggests a tent with stripes and I guess the image to his left was a standup cutout of him … I don’t think it was a T shirt for sale or anything like that, but it’s difficult to see in the gloomy interior, which was just right for a Gothic feel!

        It’s a treat for me to pass along these memories to Mrs. Acilius and to you.

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  7. Hee, that’s funny! Sister also loves horses and a year back we counted how many she’d owned in her life: thirty-nine.

    Reaching back into the mists of time this morning, I believe that we took along our little neighbor boy, the blond standing near in both photos. His name is … David.

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  8. Just a note to say the entry for #425 proved especially scholarly with its look backward at Widows’ Hill history. I’m appreciative of your pace and agree that Danny Horn’s approach to posting must have taken weeks or even months to publish the entries on games, bubblegum cards and so on. Where did the stuff come from, was it in a private collection already extant, or did the webmaster acquire these rare items as inspiration struck during the blogging? I wonder about topics such as this. 🙂

    The links to other sites remain fascinating and today, on Fandom Sunday, I’m exploring tumblr.

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    1. I marvel at his achievement, it really is remarkable that he could write all that. I wonder about his job with the Wikipedia foundation, if he put in as many hours working for pay as he did writing that blog he must have gone several years without sleep.

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  9. I’ve pursued the blog like Cap’n Ahab and beached at last at the #536 ep with the line which made me laugh hardest in the whole show, ‘“Aw, now we’re gonna hear the dogs howlin’ again!”’ Your choice of this line to title the entry … well. Perfectly selected. 🙂 *reads on*

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  10. I’m reading along and now enjoy #639 with its fleshing out the characters of Amy and Chris – and also, Liz’ generosity in providing stability for little Amy. It’s easy when one has such a large home to share. 🙂 In other DS news, I’ve binged One Step Beyond for a while now and in s.2 ep.1, George Mitchell portrays a distraught father of a dying daughter quite well – the plot later shows him as a phoney, but he sure sold the grief well in his scene. It’s amazing to catch actors on the upswing in their careers in the show, such as John Marley, Robert Osborne, Suzanne Pleshette, Cloris Leachman and others.

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