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.

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.

From Eastern Illinois University's 1980 yearbook.

A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.

Prof. Wolf knew the word that would change him back, but his vocal chords couldn't pronounce it.  From Unknown, 1942.

From Witches, Wit and a Werewolf by Jeanne B. Hardendorff, 1971.

From Moving Picture World, 1919. 

From Guilford College's 1978 yearbook.

From Imagine, Adventure Games Magazine, No. 28.

Never ask a werewolf what he's thinking.  From Beyond Fantasy Fiction, 1954.

From Gannon's 1976 yearbook.

From Loyola's 1943 yearbook.

From Myths & Legends of the Australian Aboriginals by William Ramsay Smith, 1932.

Sounds like our last family reunion.  From Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits by Kathryn Edwards.

From Richmond Technical's 1981 yearbook.

From Saint Francis' 1972 yearbook.

From Northeastern's 1985 yearbook.