Terror at Collinwood Ep 76: John Logan, Celebrated Playwright & Screenwriter, Talks Dark Shadows, Monsters, Showtime’s Penny Dreadful, and more! Award-winning playwright and screenwriter John Logan created the Showtime series Penny Dreadful, and has written numerous plays, including Red, Never the Sinner, and Peter and Alice. In addition, the prolific Mr. Logan has written screenplays for major motion pictures such as The Aviator, Hugo, Gladiator, Sweeney Todd, and many others. John also happens to be a passionate Dark Shadows fan! He visits the podcast to talk Dark Shadows, Showtime’s Penny Dreadful, Universal Monsters, classic horror, and much more! In the process, John discusses the impact DS has made on the terror and speculative fiction genre, and how it inspires his own work as a creator. This is one episode you will not want to miss! Bonus question for you at the end: So, you want to live in Collinwood?
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I can't tell you how excited I was to see this post answering my question from 2009, here:
http://dsboards.com/SMF/index.php?topic=17198.msg141663#msg141663
Title: Dream Curse Story Origin
Post by: Philippe Cordier on March 20, 2009, 07:11:26 PM
At any rate, in "The Dark Shadows Almanac: 30th Anniversary Tribute," there is a page titled "Dark Shadows Sources," and it lists a story by an unknown author, "The Dream Deceivers," as the inspiration for the 1968 Dream curse instigated by Cassandra Blair.
Does anyone know anything about this story? I've done a google search and didn't come up with anything.
- Philippe Cordier
If "The Dream Deceivers" was a published book or short story, Bette and Luciaphil were not able to find any trace of it back in 2002 using their library resources.
Midnite
Thanks, Midnite.
The Dream Curse storyline is the first extended sequence of DS that I remember from childhood, so it has special significance to me. It was so terrifying at that time. Surprisingly, I don't remember too much about it from my viewing of the series in the 1990s on SciFi.
It's interesting to think of the mileage that some unknown author's story got, and he or she has never been properly credited!
- Philippe
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In which post Midnite referred back to the question as previously posed in 2002:
http://dsboards.com/SMF/index.php?topic=1424.msg9971#msg9971
Title: Dream curse question
Post by: kuanyin on June 04, 2002, 04:53:09 PM
22 years is a long time to wait, but I'm glad there's finally an answer!
- Philippe
Philippe, I am THRILLED and delighted to hear this. Thank you for posting to let me know. I was really hoping the episode would reach those who've been asking this question for years. As mentioned in the episode, the waters were muddied by the odd inclusion in the Almanac and I put forward a couple of theories about why they did that. One I didn't mention was that it might've been an ill-conceived prank ("deceivers" - hmm), but I hope that itsn't the case. My guess is that it was kind of a fudge as a way of including it without drawing attention to the fact that the novel wasn't/isn't in the public domain! That said, neither is 'The Lottery', so who knows why that was done? Weirdly, the info has been out there for a long time as Ron Sproat told the fans at the first Festival that the Dream Curse storyline was inspired by the novel, 'The Dreamers'. It just flew past a lot of our radars. Hopefully, this episode will shed more light on it.
