Author Craig Hamrick focuses on the cast of Dark Shadows in this book.

Author Craig Hamrick profiles Louis Edmonds (Roger Collins), whose career included the role of Langley Wallingford on All My Children.

In a true labor of love, Lara Parker (Angelique) gathered together her mother's poetry for children and published it. Lara spoke about the book with great pride at the 1999 Dark Shadows Festival. Lara compiled the book as a gift for her mother, Ann Heiskell Rickey, at Christmas, and Mrs. Rickey was able to see the book published before she passed away.

Kathryn Leigh Scott, who portrayed Maggie Evans and Josette DuPres on Dark Shadows, looks at the Playboy Clubs through the eyes of former Bunnies. Scott, a former Playboy Bunny herself, interviews Deborah Harry and Lauren Hutton among others. A paperback edition of The Bunny Years was released in June 1999. A video is also available.

Kate Jackson (Daphne Harridge) started her acting career on Dark Shadows before achieving fame as one of Charlie's Angels. Just as the show is about to become a major motion picture starring Drew Barrymore, Kathryn Leigh Scott's (Maggie Evans) Pomegranate Press has released a book on Charlie's Angels.

The Millennium Edition includes articles by John Karlen (Willie Loomis), Denise Nickerson (Amy Jennings), Lara Parker (Angelique), and Chris Pennock (Jeb Hawkes).

Dark Shadows: Dreams of the Dark by Stephen Mark Rainey and Elizabeth Massie with an introduction by Lara Parker

In 1998, Harper Collins began releasing a new series of Dark Shadows novels. Unfortunately, the series was canceled after the release of the second book in the series.

Angelique's Descent recounts how Angelique first met Barnabas in Martinique. Dreams of the Dark deals with a mysterious stranger with ties to the Civil War era arriving at Collinwood.

Also be sure to check out The Last Trumpet & Legends of the Night by Stephen Mark Rainey.

In July 2006, Tor published a new Dark Shadows novel by Lara Parker. Here's the back cover text from LaraParker.com:

As the original Dark Shadows storyline ended, Barnabas Collins had escaped the curse of the witch Angelique and found his way back to humanity after two hundred years as a ravenous vampire. Now actress Lara Parker, Angelique herself, reveals the next dark twist in this saga of love and cruelty.

Barnabas Collins is ready to embark on a new life and marriage with his savior, the virtuous Dr. Julia Hoffman. But when Antoinette, a beautiful '60s flower child with a shocking resemblance to the immortal witch Angelique, rebuilds the Old House, his past returns to haunt him. Discovering a grisly corpse in the basement -- where his own casket once lay -- Barnabas realizes another vampire has invaded his domain.

Did Antoinette summon the vampire or is she as innocent as she is beautiful? And what of her daughter, Jacqueline, confined for delusions of witchcraft, to the local sanitarium?

The roots of the Collins family's power and wealth go deep.... Back to the corrupt witch trials of of Salem itself...

Barnabas's fight to protect his family from this new threat will take him back through time to an evil moment in America's history. Two hundred years ago, Jacqueline's previous incarnation was tried and condemned to hang as a witch in Salem. Desperate, she spilled the blood of her newborn babe to curse the greedy and corrupt judges --including a Collins. How powerful is her malevolent curse, and how much of her fate and her witchcraft does present-day Jacqueline remember?

After a wait of thirty years, the next chapter in the Dark Shadows saga finally unfolds with the full measure of eroticism and spellbinding suspense, and gripping storytelling that made the original television series a timeless hit.

The 1971-72 newspaper adaptation of Dark Shadows.

Includes forewords by Jonathan Frid and Kathryn Leigh Scott.

This new book features updated text from Scott's out-of-print Dark Shadows Scrapbook, a foreword by Alexandra Moltke Isles (Victoria Winters), and recollections from David Henesy (David Collins) and John Karlen (Willie Loomis).

The Dark Shadows Movie Book edited by Jim Pierson and Kathryn Leigh Scott

Producer/Director Dan Curtis' original shooting scripts from House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows.

The Dark Shadows Music Book by Robert Cobert

Sheet music for original compositions from Dark Shadows.

Technically speaking, Hawkes Harbor is not a Dark Shadows book, but acclaimed author S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders) was once in the running to write an installment in the short-lived Harper-Collins series of Dark Shadows novels in the 1990s. Though the Dark Shadows novel never came to be, fans can read it with the names and places changed in Hawkes Harbor. The book focuses on the life of Jamie Sommers. Dark Shadows fans will recognize him as Willie Loomis.

Diana Millay (Laura Collins) shares recipes from costars from her many television and film appearances.

Originally published in 2000, this collection of poems was written following the death of David Selby's (Quentin Collins) mother.

This 2008 book features a foreword by Kathryn Leigh Scott (Maggie Evans) and a preface by Dark Shadows fan Amanda Trujillo.

The Physics of Dark Shadows reveals for the first time that so many of the bizarre, supposedly supernatural occurrences on Dark Shadows actually have their bases in scientific reality.

In this 2003 book, Diana Millay (Laura Collins) explores the history and meaning of Halloween based on stories passed down from her family.

Published in 2009, Thompson's book examines the television films of Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis and includes a chapter devoted to the author's involvement in Dark Shadows fandom.

Strictly speaking, this is not a Dark Shadows item, but most fans from the original run of Dark Shadows will remember 16 Magazine with its feature articles on teen idols of the time including Jonathan Frid (Barnabas Collins) and David Selby (Quentin Collins). This book includes reprints of some original articles as well as updates on what these stars have done since their pinup days.

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