Shadows on the Wall: An Online Dark Shadows Fanzine

Dark Shadows (1966-1971) was a soap opera with an emphasis on the supernatural that has garnered a cult following in the years since it left the air. The introduction of Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) catapulted the series to enormous success, capturing the public's imagination in a way that continues to endure today. This online fanzine will provide a place for rare photos, articles, stories, artwork, and other multimedia as a tribute to the magic and mystery that is Dark Shadows.

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Dark Shadows Comic Strip Season Two, Episode Two

Sunday, October 11, 2015

Dark Shadows Comic Strip Season 2, Episode 1

Now that season 2 of our ongoing Dark Shadows based comic strip has concluded (returning spring 2016, with some special guests that I know will perk up your ears ...), I'll do what I did last year and present them weekly in a digest format, where you can enjoy a full seven daily strips as one entire "episode." Season 2 proved to be six weeks longer than our premiere season ... re-telling the story of 1795 required some extra time, with some interesting twists along the way. Enjoy!

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Sunday Comics

KLS published these in her 1996 Dark Shadows Comic Strip Book, but they were in black and white, which is really too bad, and the reprint book from Hermes Press seems to be dead in the water. Check out the colors (the colors!), the glorious early-70's colors, especially on Carolyn's mini. I've always enjoyed that the werewolf looks like the werewolf from the series; artist Ken Bald created amazing likenesses of Jonathan Frid, and the only other characters to appear from the show were Carolyn, Elizabeth, Angelique and (in one of the first strips, and only in a portrait on the wall) Quentin. Plus: how cool is Mr. Sinestra? Mr. Sinestra needs to reappear somewhere. Maybe when Shadows on the Wall returns.

Sunday, October 4, 2015

The Angelique Box

Found this on ebay -- handpainted -- weird, but fun-weird. Dude likes his Angelique be-fanged, it seems.

Sunday, September 27, 2015

House of Dark Shadows: Old Barnabas

You love him, I love him: Dick Smith's horrific vision for Old Barnabas.

Night of Dark Shadows: Spanish VHS

I love this. It's almost identical to the American VHS copy of Night of Dark Shadows I picked up at a garage sale in Sidney, Montana, on a brisk autumn day in 1996, right down to the mistakes (note that David Selby's character is referred to, once again, as "Charles Quentin Collins," one character instead of two).

Plus, the title, Una Luz en la Oscuridad, translates to "The Light in the Darkness," which I kinda love.