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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
November 1, 2022 |
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In parts one, two, and three, we saw how Dark Shadows beat Seinfeld to be the first show about nothing. Imagine entire scenes about nobody being anywhere, with questions about "Who wasn't there?"
Imagine a spooky house in which there is no evil ...
... and in which no one is under a curse ...
... because the ominous closets contain no skeletons:
[To be continued. Yes, there's more about nothing.]
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Here's a precursor to Dark Shadows' Barnabas Collins holding a haunted painting. "The shades will not vanish," from The Australian Women's Weekly, 1951.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
October 18, 2022 |
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That's our own face of blurred panic when there's a knock at the door. She's reassurred that ghosts don't knock, but of course they very famously do knock on doors and rap on tables. From Dark Shadows episode 1174.
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"The very dress of the picture lady," from St. Nicholas, 1915. This is a precursor to the finding of a dress pictured in a haunted portrait in Dark Shadows.
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Images Moving Through Time –
September 6, 2022 |
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Accidental grotesqueness in Dark Shadows, courtesy of a warped mirror and a clueless actor. Kate Jackson betrays a malformed face as she stands waiting for her cue, mouthing her upcoming lines (as the crew bangs props offscreen), unaware that the cameras are already rolling. It's a bizarre moment of distorted reality, all the more startling and affecting because it was unplanned. From episode 1195.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
September 1, 2022 |
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In parts one and two, we saw how Dark Shadows beat Seinfeld to be the first show about nothing. Not only was nobody in the spooky tower ...
... even little boxes are eerily empty ...
... as well as bigger boxes, like coffins, because the larger the emptiness, the greater the horror:
Where did everything go? It joined the nothingness from whence it came:
[To be continued. Yes, there's more about nothing.]
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
August 29, 2022 |
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought –
August 10, 2022 |
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Imagine the horror of lighting a candle and finding no one in the room!
There's endless suspense in nobody stalking or trying to hurt you:
Of course, Dark Shadows was set in a mansion because the bigger the emptiness, the more the horror:
[To be continued. Yes, there's more about nothing.]
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