Apparently, Entertainment Weekly recently came out with a list of the 20 greatest vampires in movies and TV. Conspicuous by his absence was one Barnabas Collins of DS fame.
Let me quote the reaction to that grievous miscarriage of justice (Aug. 21/28, '09 edition):
Some readers hammered a stake through our list, citing our failure to mention Dracula's Frank Langella, Buffy's Spike and especially Dark Shadows' Barnabas Collins ("You'd better be stringing garlic around your windows for this exclusion," Cyndi Migon warned us).
You go Cyndi!