1966: Vicki Fleeing Collinwood

 

Collinwood in Blue

 

1968: The Blair Twins Invade Collinwood

 

1966: Vicki, Escaping

 

Giddy Gothic

 

Collinwood

 

The Gothic Charm of Victoria Winters

 

Joanna Going Visits Seaview

Her name was Victoria Winters ... her journey was just beginning ...

1966: Dark Shadows (the Beginning)

Back to basics ... the OG gothic imagery:  a girl running from a big, spooky house.  (Collinwood can be spooky in the daylight!  ... What?  What?)

Seaview Terrace

Dynamite Comic Dark Shadows #1 ... Alternate Covers

I gotta say, and maybe it's just because I love Lyndhurst so much more than Seaview Terrace (and I've explored them both, inside and out), but I really prefer the first, and very blue, cover Dynamite abandoned.

 

The Great Estate of Collinwood(s)

Part of the charm of Dark Shadows for me, and, I suspect, for many fans, are the fabulous buildings used by the show for the big, dark houses that populated the town of Collinsport, past, present, and parallel.  One of the reasons I wanted so badly to attend the 50th Anniversary Dark Shadows Festival after a twelve year drought was to visit the Lyndhurst estate; I'd been in 1997 and again in 2004, and I fell in love.  As a bonus, my friends and I braved the woods and its army of stinging nettles to find the remains of the Spratt Mansion, which was used on the show as the exteriors for the Old House.  So, having also tripped up to Rhode Island in 1999 to visit Seaview Terrace, I can now say that I've been present at all the Collinwood mansions used in conjunction with the original series!  (Maybe next year we'll visit Greystone in Beverly Hills!)