I would purchase them at the book counter in our local Montgomery Ward's. They cost a whopping 45 cents.
You must have been lucky enough to get discount prices because I paid the price that's on each book (50 cents for
Dark Shadows through
Barnabas Collins VS The Warlock, 60 cents for
Barnabas, Quentin, And The Avenging Ghost through
Barnabas, Quentin And The Grave Robbers, and 75 cents for
Barnabas, Quentin, And The Sea Ghost and
Barnabas Quentin And The Hidden Tomb. Those latter two were the only ones I could find back in the day. I didn't get copies of
Barnabas, Quentin And The Mad Magician and
Barnabas, Quentin And The Vampire Beauty until about 2000 when I paid $2.50 for each one - but I considered myself quite lucky to get them for that price because back in the '90s I'd seen them go for $10.00 and more!
The novelization of HoDS was a mind-boggling ninety cents because it contained photographs from the film
On the other hand, back in the day I only paid 75 cents for the hoDS novelization. I wonder if the price increased for subsequent printings?
But speaking of that novelization -
With some embellishments and minor changes, it pretty much follows the uncut script word-for-word
- that's mostly true, but not quite because the version of the script that Ross used was an intermediate version - neither the original draft nor the final draft. For example, the version in the book of the scene that's currently in the hoDS slideshow is an intermediate version. It's not even close to the film's version, and it also happens to include Sheriff Patterson actually trying to question Daphne without any luck, whereas in the film Daphne is unconscious. And interestingly enough, one of the lines of dialogue from that intermediate version is actually featured on the Fest's 1999 Movie Calendar because they also used the intermediate version of the script for the calendar.
All will become clear once I get back to sharing what's different in previous versions of the script...