Month: March 2024

  • Dark Shadows Fan Fiction: “The Center of the Light”

    Dark Shadows Fan Fiction: “The Center of the Light”

    The Center of the Light (by Barb Lien-Cooper)

    “They didn’t take me as seriously as they should have… because I’m a woman.”

    –Dr. Julia Hoffman, Dark Shadows, episode 338

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    Dr. Julia Hoffman sat in the break room of the Windcliff Sanitarium with Dr. Dave Woodard… her friend (who wouldn’t mind at all if he were more than a friend).

    “All in all,” Julia was saying, “I think my first interview went well. They, of course, wondered if I, a mere woman, could handle running this place,” she added sarcastically, “but…”

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  • Barb Approves of Stuff!

    Barb Approves of Stuff!

    My husband Park and I spend a lot of time reading, listening to music, and watching movies, old TV shows, etc.

    We’re also pretty picky about what we like.

    So, I thought I’d make a list of some stuff I (and he) do approve of!

    –“The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall” (read by Jonathan Frid)

    I’m putting this up at the top of this list front for my fellow Dark Shadows fans! My husband and I are huge fans of the old supernatural soap opera Dark Shadows, and the lead vampire actor, Jonathan Frid, had such a compelling voice! So listening to him read this funny ghost story about how to outwit a ghost that makes rooms and people wet with water, is a minor treasure and a major pleasure for me.

    –“The Erl King” by John Connolly

    “The Erl King” is a scary poem about a father and son riding on a horse at night. The son starts hearing the voice of the “Erl King,” who is the king of the fairies. The Erl King wants to drag the son away to his fairy kingdom…

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