1968: Chris Jennings

 

House of Dark Shadows: Maggie and Barnabas at Lyndhurst

 

My Angelique Charm from CynD!

 Picked this up at the Fest! Love!

1897: Barnabas Introduces Rachel to His Fiance

 She doesn't have the best manners, does she.

Dark Shadows Fan Club!

 

My Josette's Music Box from MPI!

 Picked it up at the Fest on a whim cuz it was so very inexpensive, all things considered. Get one here if you feel like it.

1991: Poor Daphne Collins

 

1968: Adam, Maggie, and Carolyn

 

MPI Presents ... Dark Shadows in High Def!

 MPI announced, just before the Fest, that they were planning to release at least the first forty episodes of the Introduction to Barnabas sequence on BluRay, in high definition, which ... 

...I picked up from the MPI table at the Fest last weekend!

At first I was a bit horrified. Okay, so I could never afford more than, mmmm, twenty or so of the VHS, and that was back in the day when they were selling them for $5.00 instead of the original twenty clams; I do, somehow, have all the DVDS and the coffin set, which is insane ... so when they announced the BluRays, I was like, my husband will kill me if I try to buy the entire series again. And I really wasn't going to ... but then I saw it, and I did.

You guys. You guys. It's gorgeous. The episodes are beeeeeyooooteeful. The blacks are black and the whites are white and it's just crisp and impressive. I know, it's insane, but I want the rest. I want the rest. But ... will the color episodes do as well? Hey, I bought all of Bewitched from Vista last year, and the colors were absolutely stunning. So there's hope.

Here are some terrible pictures I took with my phone off my television, but you should get the idea.

 Here you go. And it's on sale!

House of Dark Shadows: Dick Smith Transforms Jonathan Frid Into Old Barnabas

 

1966: Joe vs. Burke

 

Meeting Craig Hurd-McKenney and Jok and CURSE OF DARK SHADOWS and ...

 One of the highlights of last weekend's fest was meeting author Craig Hurd-McKenney, author of Curse of Dark Shadows, last year's graphic novel continuation of the series from Hermes Press, and artist Jok. I have been dying to meet them both, and they are SO VERY OF THE NICE. And generous! I mentioned that I had pre-ordered the CoDS revision that will be released this fall, and Craig asked me who my favorite character was. I told him Angelique, and he whipped out his phone, called up a photo of Ang from 1897, and Jok zapped me up a GORGINTA sketch. Y'all, it took him, like, five minutes or less. And it's the coolest thing ever. 

See for yourselves: 

 I will frame this and hang it in my writing room.

(And, as you doubtless know by now, there will be a sequel coming ... Fall of Dark Shadows! And you can pick up your CoDS revision here!) 

 

1968: Cassandra Is On FIRE!