The few dreams I've had about Dark Shadows have been... odd. They usually involve things that would never happen on the show, like Barnabas and Julia going on a road trip so that they can watch Vicki compete in the Special Olympics.

110. Whenever there's a potential problem, you get incredibly stressed and repeat to yourself, "Tonight must go nothing wrong."

Bleh, I think that was my fault; I think I missed Devlin66's post and started with 102 when I should have done 103. Sorry.

107. You begin to believe that someone who's only a psychologist can run a mental institution.

Again, I apologize, Borgosi. I had had a bit of a stressful day yesterday and all I (very idiotically) bothered to do was see the title and post "I HAD IT FIRST LOL."

In one of the Southern Vampire books, there's a doctor (mentioned briefly; not a major character at all) whose description could easily apply to Dr. Hoffman.

That's because Barnabas realized the impracticality of digging up the secret room's stone floor whenever he needed to bury someone.

I agree that it seems the world has gone far too vamp-crazy. I don't watch the "vampire" shows that I love (and I do mean love; I consider BtVS my favorite TV show ever) because of the vampires. I watch DS not because Barnabas is a vampire, but because he is but one of a large cast of compelling, (mostly) well-written characters. The same with Buffy; I watch these shows for their quality of writing. I have read a lot of vampire fiction (and yes, Twilight, at least in my opinion, is as bad as that editor says; in fact, some of my attempts to get people interested in Buffy have failed because they adore Twilight so much and are unwilling to try anything else. I have a couple of other vampire fiction nitpicks that I won't mention because I know that one of them was quite popular on here), and nothing has been able to draw me in like Buffy and DS. I've read the first two Anne Rice books, as well; they're very good books, but not really my thing (of course, it's been a couple years since I read them, so a re-reading may be in order; I've started looking at fiction very differently in those two years).

What I'm trying to reach here is that I do think that a lot of people will go crazy for any vampire story, regardless of whether it's good or not. But the editor is quite right in pointing out that there is good fiction dealing with vampires available.

I mean no offense here, but I already made a topic about this on the Games board.

But yes, I've reached very far to connect various things to DS, as can be seen in my aforementioned thread.

(Before I post this, I apologize in advance if this has been mentioned before. I did use the search feature to search for the author's name, and there were no results.)

A few weeks ago, when I was looking at my local Wal-Mart's book selection, I saw a hardcover volume containing the first two books of a series called The Dreamhouse Kings by Robert Liparulo. I can't remember what the second book was called, but the reason the first one caught my eye was its title: House of Dark Shadows, exactly the same as the first movie. I didn't buy this collection, and I only flipped through it, but from what I can gather, it's not a coincidence. The main characters are three siblings named Victoria, David, and Xander - granted, Xander is the name of a character from another TV series with vampires, but Victoria, David, and the title make it pretty clear. I also noticed a sentence that was something like, "Xander remembered his father talking about an old TV show called Dark Shadows, about a vampire named Barnabas who lived in a house like this." (I apologize if this is incorrect, but it has been a while since I read this). Anyway, I've been unable to find the two-pack online, so I assume it's a Wal-Mart exclusive, but I just wanted to let everyone here know to check their Wal-Mart's book section for it if they're interested. I may check out a copy from the library once I finish reading what I have at home to read.