Hey, gang,
I think that KLS' recent novel, "Dark Passages," is outstanding. Ms. Scott deftly combines her own experiences as an actress and Playboy Club bunny in New York City in the book, along with a very compelling supernatural storyline.
It was fun to "contrast" the fictional members of the cast of "Dark Passages" with the members of the cast of "Dark Shadows." Two "Dark Passages" characters, leading man Steve (Burke Devlin?) and Mr. Harrison (Sam Evans?), were very "outgoing" and even ribald individuals on
and off camera!
Ms. Scott also incorporates the Cuban missile crisis and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy into her novel. (I remember one of my boyhood friend's fathers, a local policeman, clearing out his family home's basement in order to set up a makeshift bomb shelter in the event that Nikita Kruschev
did fire missiles at New York City back then. I thought this was a
bit silly, since we only lived about two miles from Times Square!)
Ian Fletcher/Sebastian Stanhope (Barnabas Collins?) was another terrific character with a European background in the novel. Mr. Fletcher and Margie Blatch (KLS' "real" name in the novel) also have a budding romance to go along with the supernatural intrigue.
I hope that Ms. Scott intends to write a sequel to "Dark Passages." Maybe Johnny Depp will even want to portray Ian Fletcher/Sebastian Stanhope in a screen version of ""Dark Passages" in a couple of years!?!
Bob