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1) Dark shadows
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Dark Shadows (December 1966).
Despite warnings from the townspeople, Victoria Winters accepts the offer to come to the strange Collinwood as Governess. For some curious reason she feels the secret of her past may be uncovered in the bleak manor high on Widow's Hill.
From the Moment she arrives, Victoria becomes the target of someone in the house determined to destroy her.
As the wind moans and the rain lashes around the isolated Collinwood, Victoria,...
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"I am NOT a witch!"
Regina Widden stirred restlessly in her bed as she fought to pull herself out of her nightmare...
At last, she opened her eyes and found that she was on a narrow cot in a small cottage. She turned to see a candle in a pewter holder burning on a wooden table beside her.
Suddenly, the door burst open and a young girl rushed in. Regina recognized her friend, Peggy.
"Regina Blake! You must get away from here at once!"
"Where am...
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Description Coming Soon... Description Coming Soon..... William Edward Daniel Ross, W. E. Daniel "Dan" Ross (born 1912) is a bestselling Canadian novelist from Saint John, New Brunswick who wrote over 300 books in a variety of genres and under a variety of mostly female pseudonyms such as Laura Frances Brooks, Lydia Colby, Rose Dana, Jan Daniels, Ross Olin, Diane Randall, Clarissa Ross, Leslie Ames, Ruth Dorset, Ann Gilmer, Jane Rossiter, Dan Ross,...
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Barnabas, Quentin and Dr. Jekyll's Son (April 1971)
Before the blizzard cuts Collinwood off from the rest of the world, Barnabas Collins arrives there from England, bringing with him his friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, who hopes to find a new life where no one knows he is the son of London's most savage murderer.
Another stranger also finds refuge from the storm at Collinwood. He calls himself Paul Faron, private detective-but to Barnabas, he is Quentin...
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Barnabas, Quentin and the Witch's Curse (August 1970)
Against her will, Anita Burgess accompanies her brother Jeffrey to Collinwood. He is determined to get revenge against Quentin Collins who he believes is responsible for his best friend's death.
Pretending friendship toward Quentin, Anita and Jeffrey learn he has established a Black Magic center at Collinwood and has several young women completely under his power.
Jeffrey...
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Secret of Barnabas Collins (January 1969)
Here is another never-before-told story of the handsome, mysterious 175-year-old vampire.
While searching for the woman who will replace his long-lost Josette, and thus end the terrible curse upon him, Barnabas meets lovely Clare Duncan. The story, set in 1870, of their romance-and of the terror it brings to the beautiful young noblewoman-I a tale of gothic suspense which will chill and delight the legions...
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Was a noose tightening around a horrified Deborah Foster?
It was the night of evil ritual. The worshippers of the devil danced around the ruined abbey, now transformed into a temple of terror. Deborah had come there hoping to unmask her sister's killer.
Suddenly against her will, Deborah felt herself succumbing to the unholy spell woven by the frenzied witches. Relentlessly they began to encircle her. Panic gripped her for she knew they had chosen...
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Barnabas Collins (November 1968)
Barnabas Collins, the 175 year-old vampire, is introduced in this story of gothic suspense.
Your blood will grow cold as you read the never-before-told story of the foggy night in 1899 when Barnabas Collins first arrived in Collinwood. You'll chill to the full horror of the real truth about Barnabas-a secret so terrible that it could not be revealed until now.
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Barnabas Collins Vs. the Warlock (October 1969)
David Collins and Amy Jennings, two charming, innocent children are suddenly turned into demons. At first their pranks only annoy Maggie Evans, their governess. But soon she realizes they have become malicious, bent on destroying all of Collinwood.
Convinced the children are possessed by a mysterious, supernatural power, and frightened for her life, Maggie turns for help to Barnabas Collins.
Will...
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Strangers at Collins House (September 1967)
Victoria Winters at last feels she has a clue to her own identity when she meets elderly Henry Collins. He secretly gives her the jewels which once belonged to his lost love - a woman Victoria strangely resembles.
After receiving the gift, Victoria is suddenly terrified by attacks on her life which are masked as accidents. Surrounded by danger, Victoria wonders if she is to be the victim of ruthless thieves...
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The wrath of the voodoo gods means death!
Karen arrives at the Bagnold plantation in Haiti determined to uncover the truth about her cousin Sheila's mysterious death. Sheila's husband, Henri Bagnold, is not above suspicion - though Karen finds herself inalterably drawn to the handsome artist.
But Henri is not the only one who had a motive for murder. His beautiful adopted sister, Jean Marie, or his attractive blonde secretary, Dorothy, also had...
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Barnabas, Quentin and the Scorpio Curse (November 1970)
Is the sign of Scorpio the mark of death?
Terror reigns at Collinwood when several patients at a nearby psychiatric clinic at which Barnabas Collins is a patient are stabbed to death. Each victim's forehead is marked with a scorpion, the zodiacal symbol of death.
Then Diana Collins, another relative of the Collins family who is undergoing psychiatric treatment at the hospital, finds a bloody...
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Barnabas, Quentin and the Body Snatchers (February 1971)
In an alien spaceship hidden in a swamp near Collinwood, Roger Collins and his friend, space scientist Murdock Gray, lie bound and gagged-yet no one even knows they are missing! For their captors are able to change shapes at will, and two of them have "become" Roger and Murdock. Although Elizabeth and Carolyn sense a difference, they can't guess that they are at the mercy of beings who will...
14) Memory of Evil
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Would Anna become another victim of the eerie menace - or was she the menace itself?
Anna Percival drifted through the shadowy rooms of the old dark house in a sleepwalker's trance. And wherever she went a strange death was sure to follow.
Many years before, at Land's End Manor, lived another Anna, a murderess of uncommon cunning and cruelty. Gossipy villagers tried to make Anna Percival believe that the other Anna's evil spirit lived in her!
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Barnabas, Quentin and the Nightmare Assassin (June 1970)
Carolyn Stoddard is knocked unconscious when the sports car she and Barnabas are riding in skids on a patch of ice. She regains consciousness in Collinwood with Barnabas and Quentin Collins at her side-but the year is 1870! And Collinwood is being terrorized by a savage killer. Carolyn likes Quentin and refuses to believe that even in werewolf form, he could be the murderer.
But even...
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Barnabas Collins and the Mysterious Ghost (January 1970)
Collinwood is plagued with a series of menacing events when a ballet troupe arrives there to perform for the summer tourists. One girl in particular, the beautiful Diana Samson, whom Barnabas has come to love, is repeatedly attacked by a mysterious, invisible presence.
When the star of the ballet is murdered, everyone is suspect-including Diana and Barnabas. And when several graves are found...
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Barnabas, Quentin and the Sea Ghost (August 1971)
Centuries ago, Jenny Swift ruled her cutthroat crew of pirates with a blacksnake whip. Now, legend says, her ghost still guards the treasure ship where it sank in Collinsport Cove, meting out death to those rash enough to seek her gold. But Norah Bliss and her father, both salvage experts, are skeptical. Invited to Collinwood to recover the treasure, they accept eagerly.
At Collinwood, Norah finds...
18) Dark Legend
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The Dark Legend of Dunbar Manor terrified Ann Randall. How long could she endure its horrifying attacks on her sanity - and her life?
Dunbar Manor had always been a place of fear for Ann Randall. Years ago her mother had been killed there by a black-hooded figure who escaped capture. There were those who said that the phantom-like "thing" still roamed the eerie grounds at the dark of the moon.
Ann had never expected to return to Dunbar Manor. But...
19) Phantom Manor
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From the moment she came to live at Phantom Manor, a rotting pile of stone she had suddenly inherited, Jan Davis became the terrified victim of a series of "accidents."
The lurking murderer could be anyone whose life was tied to the dread secret of the eerie mansion; a homicidal, half-witted young man; a jealous relative who wanted the manor for herself; even a neighboring landowner with whom Jan had fallen in love.
But the hidden villain of Phantom...
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Barnabas Collins and Quentin's Demon (February 1970)
When Quentin Collins invited Lara Balfour to Collinwood, they knew each other only from the correspondence that had grown out of Quentin's admiration for the haunting waltz her father had composed.
Soon Quentin professes to love Lara-but is his love really a threat? His first wife's throat was torn out by a wolflike creature who escaped capture. Since then, other young women have died in the same...