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Current Talk '18 / Re: Ron Sproat and Barnabas
« on: March 30, 2018, 07:56:34 PM »In the 1983 tape, Ron says he found the name Barnabas in "an old whaling book." I remember reading in the first KLS book (published around '86) that Bob Costello found the name on an old tombstone. Who knows, maybe they both saw the name, and it came up when they were having the script conference and that was what they settled upon.
Costello makes the same claim in his DS Files interview with Ed Gross. He says something to the effect that he was specifically checking out the names on old tombstones for a name that would be good for the vampire. Though one thing that's interesting was back then Barnabas' backstory was taking place in the 1830s.
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It's certainly a name that packed a punch!
Indeed!