A Grave Mood Rings homage to Dark Shadows.

A mysterious extraterrestrial communication, on Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.

"Presto—you are in Normandy.  You wear a velvet gown and flirt with dukes.  Your lovers duel in the moonlit garden."

You're welcome.

From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.

Is it wrong for her to want to go fishing?  From Improvement Era, 1967.

"The sooner we begin, the sooner it will be over."  From Dark Shadows episode 682.

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

"Peter Puck wants to know if the sea front is at the sea side."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.

From Flying Saucer News, 1955.

"Peter Puck wants to know how to make both ends meet without a Sunday joint."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.

"Do not wear a broom to breakfast."  From Expressways, Grade 3, Level 6, Handstands by Thorn & Irwin, 1977.

"I just know that nothing else must happen."  From Dark Shadows episode 392.

A collage of stills from Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.

Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It 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 was written by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.

From The Sorcery Club by Elliott O'Donnell, 1912.

"Are you writing a story?"  From Improvement Era, 1941.

"Evil keeps no set business hours."  From Dark Shadows episode 358.

The spooky thing about tattoos, on Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.