Daytime Gothic II: Celebrating TV's Supernatural Soap Opera Dark Shadows

£10.00
THIS IS A PRE-ORDER. RELEASE DATE: JULY 22

Daytime Gothic
is a full-colour charity magazine celebrating 60 years of TV's spookiest soap, Dark Shadows, with 160 pages of features, interviews, rartwork, fiction and humour, illustrated with rare and previously unseen photographs from the archives of Dan Curtis Productions. Highlights include… 
  • Lara and Kathryn: a wide-ranging interview by Kathryn Leigh Scott, conducted shortly before Lara's death in 2023, with special photography by James Storm and Valerie Pronio Storm
  • Rare photos from Jonathan Frid’s 1968 publicity tour
  • Oscar-winning screenwriter John Logan reveals everything he learned from watching Dark Shadows
  • The story of how a unique Dark Shadows behind the scenes film was discovered in the archives of the BBC
  • Unpublished interview extracts with actor Mitchell Ryan
  • Series creator Dan Curtis celebrated with a look at his unproduced biographical screenplay and an unpublished interview with the man himself from 1968
  • Mark B. Perry tackles the thorny question… was Dark Shadows truly camp?
  • How Art Wallace’s 1953 teleplay The House built the foundations for Dark Shadows
  • Dr. Julia Hoffman: the making of a Dark Shadows icon
  • Chris Pennock remembered by friend and collaborator Ansel Faraj
  • Podcaster Penny Dreadful on dream Dark Shadows merchandise
  • The chaotic backstage saga of Dark Shadows’ short-lived Canadian rival Strange Paradise
  • A closing letter from David Selby… and much more!
Proceeds from Daytime Gothic will benefit Peace4Kids, in memory of Lara Parker. Edited by Stuart Manning. Format: 160 pages; full colour, 16.5 x 24 cm, perfect-bound