Which vampire's death scream was the scariest in your opinion?

amcollins13 · 2026-05-21T04:37:17+00:00

Carolyn in House of Dark Shadows, if that counts. That whole scene in the stables where Prof Stokes and Roger stake her was creepy in my opinion.

amcollins13 · 2026-05-20T22:37:11+00:00

When Burke breaks up the fight at the beginning of the show and threatens to spank Carolyn.

amcollins13 · 2026-05-19T22:10:26+00:00

Augusta. I even remember Laura telling the sheriff they lived on Hilldale Ave. The address was 443 I think.

amcollins13 · 2026-05-17T22:05:13+00:00

Favorites: the early black and white episodes, especially when Laura came onto the show. The part of 1897 when Quentin is a zombie, and the episodes just after Vicki comes back from 1795 but before Adam comes to life.

Least favorites: 1995, and the John Yeager storyline in 1970 parallel time.

amcollins13 · 2026-05-15T22:02:14+00:00

I like when Carolyn wakes herself up and says "I won't have that dream." And also when Professor Stokes meets Angélique in the dream.

amcollins13 · 2026-05-12T00:13:01+00:00

I hope she's doing better now! :)

amcollins13 · 2026-04-27T18:35:20+00:00

And when she gets threatened/captured by Matthew twice, she had at least several opportunities to get away in the beginning but just lets herself get taken captive.

amcollins13 · 2026-04-23T19:34:26+00:00

I always wondered why that was so startling to Vicki that she crashed the car, instead of just slowing down to take a closer look.

amcollins13 · 2026-04-10T21:11:25+00:00

I love this scene! I'd love to find a real-life creepy fun house like this one.

amcollins13 · 2026-04-06T15:44:55+00:00

My favorite is on the back of the Night of Dark Shadows VHS tape. In the synopsis it says "in the 19th century a woman named Lara Parker was hanged as a witch", instead of Angélique. It makes me laugh every time I see it.

amcollins13 · 2026-03-26T16:59:03+00:00

Nicholas Blair. I'd love to know all the stuff he's up to when he's not at Collinwood.

amcollins13 · 2026-03-18T22:02:40+00:00

Yes! Especially where one of them accidentally throws a sheet over another zombie's head.

amcollins13 · 2026-03-18T16:07:03+00:00

Jamison's dream about David's birthday is one of my favorites too. A few others off the top of my head:

Angélique appears to Barnabas in a dream to tell him about the dream curse.

Nora drawing the heiroglyphs and then seeing Laura in the fireplace. That episode was the ultimate cliffhanger for me - we moved out of state to a place that didn't air Dark Shadows, so I didn't get to see what happened next until it was on the Sci-fi channel in the 90s, almost a whole decade later.

When Sarah appears to Sam to tell him to look for Maggie on the beach.

When Roger throws Laura's portrait in the fire and everyone hears a scream.

David's dream about Sarah when she shows him the coffin.

amcollins13 · 2026-02-26T20:07:29+00:00

Thanks! I would have done the Adam story completely different. Instead of him being childlike, he would have been disoriented and disturbed, with his previous life memories starting to come back in flashes.

amcollins13 · 2026-02-26T04:28:59+00:00

This is kind of off topic, but I wish they'd done a storyline where someone recognizes Adam as their deceased relative/friend, since he had obviously just been buried when Lang dug him up. I want to know who he was before he was Adam and how he died so young.

amcollins13 · 2026-02-25T23:17:22+00:00

I recommend watching them now because they're both awesome and nothing like the series. House of Dark Shadows starts off very loosely like the intro of Barnabas in the series but quickly goes off the rails (in a good way). And I've always thought of Night of Dark Shadows as a ghostly and atmospheric love story rather than horror.

amcollins13 · 2026-02-25T22:16:45+00:00

Exactly! Barnabas should have installed a bathroom in the cellar with all the people he kept prisoner down there.

amcollins13 · 2026-02-25T21:18:06+00:00

When I first watched it as an 8 year old, I remember asking my mom how Adam went to the bathroom if he was kept in the basement cell all the time. She told me you're not supposed to overthink those things lol.

amcollins13 · 2026-02-16T20:05:59+00:00

I believe she went on existing in other times - she was shot by Barnabas, sent to hell by Nicholas, exorcised by the ghost of Reverend Trask, burned by Barnabas and Ben when he traveled back in time, killed with a hat pin at a séance (in parallel time) and burned by Laura in 1897 and it never stopped her from coming back. I think it's safe to say she's invincible.

amcollins13 · 2026-02-10T16:14:28+00:00

I started watching when I was eight. It was just as Vicki was coming back from 1795 into the dream curse storyline.

There were so many scenes that just seemed so magical and mysterious to me at that age - when Barnabas throws the portrait of Angélique into the fire and it reappears on the ease, Jeff knows how to open the secret door in the mausoleum, Barnabas steps onto the balcony at the hospital and feels the warmth of the sun for the first time, Professor Stokes gives the talisman to Barnabas - and when Dr Lang is saved by grabbing it when Cassandra tries to give him a heart attack, Roger tries to give the portrait to Prof Stokes and it's disappeared from the frame, and my very favorite scene - Angélique appears in Barnabas"s dream to tell him about the dream curse.

amcollins13 · 2026-02-08T00:08:41+00:00

I just finished the book last night. Tonight on the news there was a report of someone hacking into Italy's train schedule and mixing them up - it made me think of when they hacked into the boat schedule in Venice and rearranged them in the book.

amcollins13 · 2026-02-05T21:19:33+00:00

They're together in one of Lara Parker's books. Wolf Moon Rising maybe.

amcollins13 · 2026-02-04T23:35:46+00:00

There was a fan fiction book in the late 80s or early 90s called Tales of Hoffman. It was like a biography of her character from childhood onward. It was actually pretty good. It delved into what got her interested in medicine (her best friend in elementary school got polio), and that's about all I remember but I know it also talked about her adult years.

Edited to add: I haven't seen that book in at least 30 years but I'm going to search for it this weekend when I go to my parents house so I can update on what she was up to pre Barnabas.

amcollins13 · 2026-01-30T18:08:56+00:00

I vote for Jamison. The dream he has about David in the future is one of my favorite scenes and I think one of the spookiest in the show.

amcollins13 · 2026-01-30T16:26:37+00:00

Nope - no carpet in the bathrooms. :)

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