"When and why your sweetheart would ask you to close your eyes?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1942.

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

From The Book of Shadows by Don Paterson, 2005.

A Grave Mood Rings homage to Dark Shadows.

"I just wish there was some other way, not a seance.  The air seems so troubled even now."  From Dark Shadows, episode 167.

"If you do not aim to do better than you ever have done, you never will."  From The Kodak Magazine, 1920.

From St. Nicholas, 1892.

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. 

"Some are held prisoners by their own evil."  From Improvement Era, 1959.

"The word is the way something floats which cannot be seen.  The word is the call of the tribe from down under the water.  The word is the thing the wind says to the dead.  The word is the white candle at the foot of the throne. (Kenneth Patchen)."  From Wheaton College's 1970 yearbook.

The problem of apathy in the spirit world is too rarely discussed.  "The spirits don't care!"  From Dark Shadows episode 1215.

"Nothing that has an end is long."  From Improvement Era, 1959.

Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.

Here's an athleisure cravat sighting, courtesy of MerelyGifted at Elsewhere Cafe.  The video is here.

A Grave Mood Rings homage to Dark Shadows.