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Dark Shadows Dramatic Readings, Audiobooks #SS2
Dark Shadows: Haunting Memories
Haunting Memories
Four New Tales of Horror and Intrigue...
Hell Wind
A young Josette Du Pres is terrified for her life as a deadly hurricane smashes into the island of Martinique. She rushes for shelter but she's not the only fighting to survive...
Communion
1861 and war rages across America. The preachers Elias Trask and his young son Gregory are hiding from men who wish to kill them. But Something else is already in their hiding place...
The Ghost Ship
The warlock Nicholas Blair has transformed the witch Angelique into a vampire to serve him. Her love for Barnabas Collins though, will never die...
A Face From The Past
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard is returning to her hometown of Collinsport. But on the train she is stunned to see the young man who was once the love of her life. Could he also have returned to the town that once tore them apart?
Four New Tales of Horror and Intrigue...
Hell Wind
A young Josette Du Pres is terrified for her life as a deadly hurricane smashes into the island of Martinique. She rushes for shelter but she's not the only fighting to survive...
Communion
1861 and war rages across America. The preachers Elias Trask and his young son Gregory are hiding from men who wish to kill them. But Something else is already in their hiding place...
The Ghost Ship
The warlock Nicholas Blair has transformed the witch Angelique into a vampire to serve him. Her love for Barnabas Collins though, will never die...
A Face From The Past
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard is returning to her hometown of Collinsport. But on the train she is stunned to see the young man who was once the love of her life. Could he also have returned to the town that once tore them apart?
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First published January 31, 2017
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March 9, 2025
These stories are more like short stories read by various cast members than a dramatized story like other Audiobooks in the Dark Shadows line. My star rating and opinion is predicated upon the listener being familiar with the storylines of the original soap opera. If you don't already know these characters, the stories do not bring you up to speed, so for a casual listener, you won't get the impact that they offer a fan of the show. The stories are presented in chronological order, but there is no real link between them beyond the theme of "haunting memories," so you can enjoy them in whatever order you want.
"Hellwind" by Marcy Robin was about the first meeting of Angelique & Josette as children, during the hurricane that killed Josette's mother. It takes place around 1781, when Josette was seven years old. More about the horror and terror caused by natural events than anything supernatural, but it was effective at conveying a child's first encounters with the destruction of a hurricane and with death, memories which will haunt her and her father for the rest of their lives. Read by Kathryn Leigh Scott, who played Josette in the television show.
"Communion" by Adam Usden is about the preacher Elias Trask and his young son Gregory, who are hiding from men who wish to kill them. Elias makes an unfortunate friend. Set in 1861, this story takes place after the "The Wicked and the Dead" dramatized audiobook. It really sets the tone for all the Trask characters that show up in the audiobook series and the television show. Gregory is wounded and Elias has a lapse in faith - and makes a deal with evil to save his son. He agrees to use his Christian religion to lure men to fall from goodness into greed and corruption without ever seeing that what they are doing is evil. Although this story doesn't go into the aftermath, one could see him preaching the "prosperity gospel" long before the televangelists started, or setting religious people on a path where they worship guns and celebrities, and call the teachings of Jesus "woke nonsense" if anyone actually tries living their life the way Jesus says to live. Read by Jerry Lacy, who played Reverend Trask, Reverend Gregory Trask, Mr. Trask, and Lamar Trask on the television show (and who is married to Julia Duffy in real life, which I find neat because I'm a fan of Newhart and The Blue and the Gray, both of which star Julia Duffy). This story felt the most like the television show in terms of how it was written and presented.
"The Ghost Ship" by Lara Parker takes place between episodes 549 and 554), when Nicholas Blair turns Angelique into a vampire, so it takes place in 1968. When a ghostly Angelique hears ghosts on the beach crying for their loved ones lost at sea she feels sympathy with them. Then Nicholas Blair turns Angelique into a vampire, and she is able to summon the loved ones back from the sea - but they are horrible, and the ghosts of the widows despair even further, causing Angelique even more loss. I thought this was the most effective story in the collection in terms of being a true horror story. This story was both written and performed by Lara Parker, who played Angelique in the television show.
"A Face from the Past" by Kay Stonham tells the story of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard's past, and tells us who Victoria Winters' father is. Not a bad little story. It takes place primarily in 1990, when Elizabeth is 73 years old, but tells a story from 1945-1946. She encounters a haunting memory of her first love, and the story takes us through that memory, weaving it in with the current time, and we finally learn about her first child and how it was conceived and sent to a foundling home (basically the story of Victoria Winters, which was hinted at in the show as being Elizabeth's child, and finally confirmed as such in the audio-dramas). The story was read by Marie Wallace, who played Eve, Jenny Collins, and Megan Todd on the television show.
If you are a fan of the television show, Dark Shadows, you'll enjoy these haunting memories of some of the characters you know and love. If you don't know the show, these stories will not fill you in on who anyone is, so I don't know if you'll get as much out of them. They are good stories, but because of time constraints, they just take for granted you know who everyone is.
I have a lot of reservations about recommending it to anyone unfamiliar with the show, not because of quality but because the listener might feel lost without recourse to a search engine and some reading about the characters.
Highly recommended for fans of the show. It's read by the actors of the show (and one of them is written by one of the actors), so they are voices we already know and appreciate. They fill in gaps the show did not offer, and are welcome in that regard. These are haunting memories, and have their own strangeness about them, and are quite enjoyable.
"Hellwind" by Marcy Robin was about the first meeting of Angelique & Josette as children, during the hurricane that killed Josette's mother. It takes place around 1781, when Josette was seven years old. More about the horror and terror caused by natural events than anything supernatural, but it was effective at conveying a child's first encounters with the destruction of a hurricane and with death, memories which will haunt her and her father for the rest of their lives. Read by Kathryn Leigh Scott, who played Josette in the television show.
"Communion" by Adam Usden is about the preacher Elias Trask and his young son Gregory, who are hiding from men who wish to kill them. Elias makes an unfortunate friend. Set in 1861, this story takes place after the "The Wicked and the Dead" dramatized audiobook. It really sets the tone for all the Trask characters that show up in the audiobook series and the television show. Gregory is wounded and Elias has a lapse in faith - and makes a deal with evil to save his son. He agrees to use his Christian religion to lure men to fall from goodness into greed and corruption without ever seeing that what they are doing is evil. Although this story doesn't go into the aftermath, one could see him preaching the "prosperity gospel" long before the televangelists started, or setting religious people on a path where they worship guns and celebrities, and call the teachings of Jesus "woke nonsense" if anyone actually tries living their life the way Jesus says to live. Read by Jerry Lacy, who played Reverend Trask, Reverend Gregory Trask, Mr. Trask, and Lamar Trask on the television show (and who is married to Julia Duffy in real life, which I find neat because I'm a fan of Newhart and The Blue and the Gray, both of which star Julia Duffy). This story felt the most like the television show in terms of how it was written and presented.
"The Ghost Ship" by Lara Parker takes place between episodes 549 and 554), when Nicholas Blair turns Angelique into a vampire, so it takes place in 1968. When a ghostly Angelique hears ghosts on the beach crying for their loved ones lost at sea she feels sympathy with them. Then Nicholas Blair turns Angelique into a vampire, and she is able to summon the loved ones back from the sea - but they are horrible, and the ghosts of the widows despair even further, causing Angelique even more loss. I thought this was the most effective story in the collection in terms of being a true horror story. This story was both written and performed by Lara Parker, who played Angelique in the television show.
"A Face from the Past" by Kay Stonham tells the story of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard's past, and tells us who Victoria Winters' father is. Not a bad little story. It takes place primarily in 1990, when Elizabeth is 73 years old, but tells a story from 1945-1946. She encounters a haunting memory of her first love, and the story takes us through that memory, weaving it in with the current time, and we finally learn about her first child and how it was conceived and sent to a foundling home (basically the story of Victoria Winters, which was hinted at in the show as being Elizabeth's child, and finally confirmed as such in the audio-dramas). The story was read by Marie Wallace, who played Eve, Jenny Collins, and Megan Todd on the television show.
If you are a fan of the television show, Dark Shadows, you'll enjoy these haunting memories of some of the characters you know and love. If you don't know the show, these stories will not fill you in on who anyone is, so I don't know if you'll get as much out of them. They are good stories, but because of time constraints, they just take for granted you know who everyone is.
I have a lot of reservations about recommending it to anyone unfamiliar with the show, not because of quality but because the listener might feel lost without recourse to a search engine and some reading about the characters.
Highly recommended for fans of the show. It's read by the actors of the show (and one of them is written by one of the actors), so they are voices we already know and appreciate. They fill in gaps the show did not offer, and are welcome in that regard. These are haunting memories, and have their own strangeness about them, and are quite enjoyable.
December 13, 2018
I don't recommend
December 31, 2016
Good Addition to the story!!
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