if i could try and date it i would guess that this was from the late 1980's.a time when louis' character had largely been written into the background.soaps often keep older characters around and then trot them out from time to time for events like weddings and funerals(and whatever this ghastly doing this was)without actively writing storylines for them.

N can also be for Night of Dark Shadows. Or Ned Stuart.

Next.

Looking forward to joing the conversations here on the DS boards.

What is missing from the online edition is the red blood splatter in the article's background and a brief chronology entitled in red , "Fangs for the memories" consisting of a list of vampire themed genre starting with Vlad Dracula 1431-1476 and ending with the new 2007 tv shows; and includes of course DS with the Johnny Depp remake noted. It's on page 42 in today's edition of the newspaper.