"There were the stars to watch at night.  There was the moon."  From The Improvement Era, 1948.

A dedicated Grave Mood Rings fan just received her board game and shared a snapshot.  We have one game left, so let us know if it should be yours (and why).

From The Film Daily, 1923.

Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.

Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1993.

"Tales of the stupid and superstitious."  From Dark Shadows episode 447.

A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.

Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.  This episode is by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.

"Happy Godiva week!"  From Toike Oike, 2009.  (We're related to Lady Godiva — the barest branch of the family tree — on our maternal side.  You might be, too: see Heirs to the Queen of Hearts: Tracing Magical Genealogy.) 

A Grave Mood Rings homage to Dark Shadows.

"Did you know ... that a cheetah can outrun a greyhound?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1952.

A spirit message from 1908: "Grandpa and I just came over.  Quite a place."

"Only twenty days to Christmas.  What are you going to get for mother?"  From The Duluth Herald, 1910.

A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.

Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.

"In the glare of our scientific era, you can find no shadows, nothing that defies explanation?"  From Dark Shadows episode 177.

A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.

"Occult bestialities."  From Byways of Ghost-Land by Elliott O'Donnell, 1911.

Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.  This episode is by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.