When this was first announced, I contemplated attending. I went to the 25th anniversary festival in 1991, which was great, but I haven't been to one since. Eventually I decided not to go, but recently I began rethinking that decision. This is supposedly the final one. I would regret never having gone to another one. So, today I bit the bullet and bought my tickets and committed to a hotel reservation (non-refundable).

I'm hoping this will be a chance to rectify one major error from 35 years ago. Back then I was a very timid young man, not really sure yet who I was. While I was immensely enjoying all of the scheduled events (including the trip to Greystone), I don't think I interacted much--if at all!--with anyone. (I was very starstruck, but I do think I did manage to respond to a casual "hello" or some such from Robert Rodan in the elevator. But my inevitably timid response wasn't due solely to my general shyness. During the DS run, I was too young to really appreciate how attractive the actors were, and of course Robert had been covered with Adam makeup on TV. But there, close up in the elevator ... my goodness ... 😍)

Anyway, now I will be attending as an arguably less timid old man, and I am really looking forward to meeting other attendees and sharing our love of DS and DS-adjacent things. Hopefully I'll have the honor of meeting the cousins on this board who have been such a pleasure to read and interact with.

She was rather chatty and said that she was especially proud of the movie Making Love.

She is fully justified in being proud of that movie. She was amazing in it.

I love the line in the TV Dawn to Dusk article, when they said the cast could be seen "lurking around the studios of M-G-M". Not the Culver City lot, mind you, but the Tarrytown lot, which they seemed to have divested themselves of immediately after NODS was made.

I watched Strange Paradise back during its original run--that is, until it was no longer shown in my area, I think. I enjoyed it a lot, even though not nearly as much as DS. I liked the eerie "other-worldly" Caribbean setting, and the ways that the supernatural phenomena differed from those on DS. Paperback Library published a series of three novels, like the Marilyn Ross DS novels, and I bought all of them. (I had always wondered if Dorothy Daniels was really Marilyn (Dan) Ross, but nope, Dorothy Daniels was her real name--even though she also wrote under pseudonyms.)

That part about Jeff's death may just be me, though. 

But how do you really feel, MB? 😁

I think a 1795 prequel would have been the most likely, and most successful, way to go for a HoDS sequel. DC would have lots of opportunity to incorporate more of the vampire gore. The 1795 TV storyline was perhaps the pinnacle of the original DS storytelling, and the 1790 segments were the best part of the 1991 series. (While I enjoyed Barbara Steele as Julia, I thought she was exceptional as Natalie.)

I have always found werewolves to be kind of boring.

Wow, what an amazing detail, MB! I literally LOL'd even before I got to your words below the photo! 😄😆

Carlotta certainly has an ... interesting ... wardrobe for a housekeeper!

And I've always wondered how close she came to damaging the silver and/or the countertop ... 😁

And additionally, seeing this still makes me question just where does Carlotta serve that salad? I suppose it's on that round table behind Quentin and Tracy (the same table on which the seance is held). But with that lamp on it, it doesn't seem like there would be all that much room for food and wine - though I suppose the angle from which the still is taken could be deceiving...

Considering how much regard Carlotta has for Tracy, I wouldn't have been surprised to see her bring Tracy's salad in on a TV tray.