"Indiscretion is the better part of literature." —George Sylvester Viereck, The House of the Vampire

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

"You don't know the way I suffer!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1940.

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

"Now what reason is there for us to be frightened anymore?"  From Dark Shadows episode 800.

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.

His fiancee "has everything a man needs—broad shoulders, muscles, a moustache—"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1958.

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

"A veil pieced by lightning."  From Dark Shadows episode 1130.

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.

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

"It's been so long since I played with fire.  I miss it."  From Passions episode 71. 

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.

"Peter Puck wants to know if a golfer has a driving licence."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1935.

"If you were twins.  If you were two persons instead of one you could double."  From The Duluth Herald, 1921.

"Enjoy your next broken neck!"  From The Aberree, 1964.

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 co-written by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.

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

"I must admit that I'm exhausted."  From Dark Shadows episode 1014. 

"I'm superior to 99.9% of the people on this earth. If that makes me a snob, I'm not going to apologize for it." From Passions, ep. 83.