Joeytrom, she spoke about her next book at this year's Fest.  Here's one mention of it:

Lara gave more info about her third DS novel, which includes several plotlines, including a flashback back to the 1920's and Flapper Liz, that might be interesting

Maybe someone who was present for her talk can provide more details.

And here's where it can be seen:  http://www.bigfinish.com/10-Dark-Shadows-Final-Judgement

David sent along this page, on which a gay writer's pop culture blog asks 6 DS trivia questions:

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Barnabas Collins

I've also made a 'Dark Shadows 12 Pains of Christmas..' music video

Brava, Sara Monster!  Love Willie and the lights, lol.

"There is no margin for error. Punishment is necessary."
Bill Gates was a DS fan?

"The waters shall nourish" poem must be important since David is the 4th character to recite it.

how do you nourish grains of sand?

The ocean does, apparently.  But I'm positing, based on Leviathan as sea creature.  Humanity is as impermanent as a sandy shore, while the great Old Ones ("wedged between the sacred ancient stones") aren't destroyed by the tides but flourish once the ancient creature has made the way for them.  It's the theme of "The Call of Cthulu."

My understanding is that TCoC was long considered unfilmable by its fans until recently when some Lovecraft devotees made it using stop-action and other sfx.  And here we have DS, a low-budget soap, taking a run at it 40 years ago.  Highly ambitious, and oh-so insane.  I'm guessing (!!) that lots of "Are you nuts?" and "If you can't do it, I'll get somebody who can" came out of the writers' meetings around that time, though these are G-rated versions.

Quote from: MagnusTrask on December 03, 2009, 03:13:36 PM

Why doesn't Barnabas out Chris?   Maybe that would be too disruptive to the whole situation, but it would separate Carolyn from him.

Not necessarily.  Carolyn might feel sorry for Chris.

Yeah, if hearing that the HOT man she'd fallen for is emotionally unstable, dangerous, out of control and a monster isn't enough to scare her away, then learning that he was cursed would probably just make him more attractive.  At least that's what happened to little Midnite after she was introduced to Quentin Collins in 1969.  Sigh.

Marie Wallace was so good, she scored separate listings in the credits for her characters.