She doesn't have the best manners, does she.
Thursday, August 13, 2026
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.
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
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!
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
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!)
Monday, August 10, 2026
My Cool Prize from the Fest
Okay, so this is gonna sound weird: at Fests past, there were always tons of old fanzines and novels for sale in the dealers room, and I was hoping that such would be the case this past weekend in L.A. Well, not quite (I did pick up an old issue of Inside the Old House, which was pretty rad). I went into the weekend with my heart set on acquiring what has become a fairly hard to find, fairly pricey collectable: The History of Dark Shadows 1966-1967 book. I have my copy of The Introduction of Barnabas book from the DS Fest I ordered way back in 1996 that looks very similar to the History book I so desperately desired; I wanted both volumes!
No dice. No real old treasures to be found in the dealers room. And the book was fairly exorbitantly expensive on the ebays. Ah, well, I thought. I'll stumble upon it, all in good time.
Then: Saturday night. The auction. Oh, the auction! An hour in, and my friends and I had pretty well played that scene, and then auctioneer Jim Pierson announced that he was offering up Lara Parker's personal copy of The History. Lara Parker's personal copy, you guys. You know me; I'm a die-hard Angelique fan (see my previous post or click on the Angelique link to your right). I bid, thinking, man, there's no way I'll ever get this.
Well, girl. I got it.
Here's the proof:
A picture of Joel Crothers I've never seen before!
Lara Parker's personal copy, y'all. I'm still in shock. And cheaper than you can get it on ebay. I live.
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