Adaptations
Dark Shadows often incorporated classic stories with gothic themes into its narrative. The series modified this material freely, giving the familiar stories unusual twists. Most significantly this included: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, (Victoria Winters, 1966; Jenny Collins, Rachel Drummond, 1897); The Crucible by Arthur Miller, (Reverend Trask, Abigail Collins & Victoria Winters, 1795); The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe, (Barnabas Collins & Reverend Trask, 1795); Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, (Adam, 1968); The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe, (Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, 1968); The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, (The Ghosts of Quentin Collins & Beth Chavez, 1968-69; The Ghosts of Gerard Stiles & Daphne Harridge, 1970); The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, (Quentin Collins & Edith Collins, 1897); Nicholas Nickelby by Charles Dickens, (Gregory Trask’s Worthington Hall, 1897); The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe, (Aristede & Quentin Collins, 1897); The Monkey's Paw by Guy de Maupaussant, (Count Petofi’s hand, 1897); The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, (Quentin Collins’ Portrait, 1897); The Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft, (Leviathans, 1969-70); Greek Mythology: Orpheus in the Underworld, (Quentin Collins & Amanda Harris, 1969-70); Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, (1970 Parallel Time & Night of Dark Shadows); The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, (Cyrus Longworth/John Yaeger, 1970 Parallel Time); The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, (1841 Parallel Time); Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, (1841 Parallel Time).
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