#the Collinwood cottage

[whatithinkaboutdarkshadows]

Episode 670: A nice couple

The only story that reliably worked in the first 38 weeks of Dark Shadows was the attempt of well-meaning governess Vicki Winters to befriend her charge, strange and troubled boy David Collins. Its success was less to do with the writers than with the actors. When we saw Vicki in David’s room giving him his lessons, her dialogue was as bad as anything else the actors found in the scripts,…

[widowshill]

— And do you or do you not have difficulty remembering such simple instructions? — Only during thunderstorms, sir.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) / DARK SHADOWS (1966)

[architecturethroughouthistory]

Seaview Terrace, also known as the Carey Mansion, is a privately owned mansion located in Newport, Rhode Island. It was designed in the French Renaissance Revival Châteauesque style and completed in 1925. It was the last of the great “Summer Cottages” constructed and is the fifth-largest of Newport’s mansions, after The Breakers, Ochre Court, Belcourt Castle, and Rough Point. The television show Dark Shadows used its exterior as the fictional Collinwood Mansion

In 1907, whiskey millionaire Edson Bradley built a French-Gothic mansion on the south side of Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. It covered more than half a city block, and included a Gothic chapel with seating for 150, a large ballroom, an art gallery, and a 500-seat theatre — 90 feet by 120 feet, and several stories tall, completed in 1911—known as Aladdin’s Palace.

In 1923, Bradley began disassembling his Washington, D.C. mansion and relocating it to a Newport property at Ruggles and Wetmore avenues. Sea View, the 1885 Elizabethan-Revival mansion already on the site, was incorporated into the design, and lent its name to the new chateau.

Source: Facebook

Historical Homes of America

[willie-loomis-deserves-love]

The Caretaker’s Cottage

Landmarks of Collinsport

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Dark Shadows Locations

Surrounding Towns

Coldwater, Maine. Specific to Dark Shadows Universe. Over 50 miles from Collinsport, on Highway 105. That would place it somewhere between Augusta and Camden. (0112)

Highway 105 (between Augusta and Camden) is 50 miles from Collinwood. (0112) Or a hundred, according to other less reliable characters.

Cemeteries

There is a cemetery seven miles to the north of the Stockbridge crypt. (0157)

The Stockbridge cemetery is five miles out on the North Road, when it's leading away from Collinsport. (0182)

Coastline

Bill's body was found two miles south of Collinwood. (0056)

Simm's Cove is two miles north of the cannery. (0060)

Lookout Point is halfway between Bill Malloy's house and the cannery (0060)

There is a "little cove" about two miles north of the Collinwood estate. (0110)

Hills

Widow's Hill

Adjacent to the water.

Large cliffs.

Collinwood on crest.

The Old House is closer to the cliffs than Collinwood is.

Eagle Hill

Eagle Hill Cemetery is on Eagle Hill. It has the same Caretaker as the cemetery with the Stockbridge Crypt, but it isn't the same cemetery.

Roads

Outside Collinsport

There is a main road between Bangor and Collinsport, and it is liable to be washed out. (0096)

There are also at least two less-used back roads (Roger specified "this back road", which implies more than one), which is less prone to being washed out, but still can in bad storms. They must converge soon out of Bangor into one, as Roger isn't able to backtrack, and Patterson uses the phrase "the back road to Bangor". (0096) There are a few houses on it, and an abandoned shack.

The Collins family owned a "seaside" property "just north of town" until Liz sold it to Hackett. (223)

There is a railroad crossing just outside Collinsport. "The beach road outside town" is nearby. (313)

Rose Cottage is on Cumberland Road. (1104)

The Road South of the Oak Crossing

"...they'd never get up that hill, the rain has caused a washout on the road" (0096) implies that there is a single-road bottleneck one needs to pass before they can get to Collinwood. However, since Patterson is able to ask someone to bring "the other car" (so two cars?) up to fetch him from Collinwood, this implies that the road with the washout is not the one he stalled on, or if it is, then either the washout either will be fixed quickly, there is a long-distance detour that works, OR the washout on the road is on the bottleneck, but the bottleneck is between Bangor and Collinsport rather than from Collinsport to Collinwood, or between Bangor and Collinsport. Perhaps the hill is Eagle Hill?

On the road south of the oak crossing, there's a blocked culvert, and the water's going over the road like a river. (0096) The implication here is this road is the same one as the one with the washout.

This is NOT the back road to Bangor.

Inside Collinsport

Joe Haskell lives in a boarding house on Dock Street (654) and the end of North Main Street (178). It's white clapboard.

Lamar Trask's Funeral Parlor was on Front Street. (1199)

Professor Stokes had a place on Arrowhead Street, "one of those small streets on the edge of [Collinsport]".

Collinwood to Collinsport

Patterson's vehicle stalled "half a mile down the road" from Collinwood (0096). Apparently, it was the nearest house with a phone. He later calls it "the Valley Road", and it is "a half mile from Collinwood".

Vicky was almost hit on the road. There is a signpost indicating Collinsport 2 (going away from Collinsport!) (104). Vicky says it was about a half a mile from Collinwood. (104)

The North Road

The North Road leads out of Collinsport, towards Collinwood. It has at least one feeder street that branches off to the right when facing away from Collinsport. At the end of the road is the House By The Sea, which is adjacent to the ocean and surrounded by birch trees. At a point between Collinwood and Collinsport, the road narrows.

The road to the cemetery with the Stockbridge crypt was off the road to the right, from Collinsport to Collinwood. Going on that road, to the left there is another road that leads into the cemetery. (153) The cemetery happens to be five miles out, and is on the North Road, leading out of Collinsport. (182).

The House By The Sea is right by the ocean, and at the end of the North Road. The House By The Sea is surrounded by birch trees. (293)

There is a grave for one Jeremy Harrow at the point where the North Road narrows. It's not the only grave there; further on, there is a tomb with more. (1105)

Collinwood and Estate

The Collinwood Estate property stretches for miles. (0118)

Roger went off the road about halfway down the hill, and that was about a hundred feet from the bottom of the hill. (0017).

There are two roads that reach Collinwood. One is nearly impassable, and probably connects to the Old House. (111)

There are "back roads" that may flood in between Collinwood and elsewhere. (362)

Collinwood is a quarter mile from the road. (574)

Patterson's vehicle stalled "half a mile down the road" from Collinwood (0096). Apparently, it was the nearest house with a phone. He later calls it "the Valley Road", and it is "a half mile from Collinwood".

Vicky was almost hit on the road. There is a signpost indicating Collinsport 2 (going away from Collinsport!) (104). Vicky says it was about a half a mile from Collinwood. (104)

[blueiscoool]

The Beautiful $30 Million Newport Gilded Age Mansion

Seaview Terrace is Newport's largest privately owned Gilded Age mansion. But you might need to call Ghostbusters before you move in.

Don’t worry, the ghostly spirits are said to be friendly. Though the door handles that rattle and turn by themselves and the male voice that asks “Hello, is that you?” might send shivers down your spine.

Back in 2011, the Syfy Network’s Ghost Hunters team spent the night inside the Seaview Terrace mansion, the former Newport, Rhode Island, home of whiskey baron Edson Bradley. During the filming, the fearless Hunters recorded muffled voices, footsteps and clunks on floors above, and felt dramatic temperature changes in the “creepy” third-floor tower.

But in the eleven years since, perhaps the spirits have decamped elsewhere. “I’m sorry to say that my visits to the house have been entirely ghost-free. Though I must admit that I’ve not been there at night,” Lea Savas, listing broker with Edge Realty RI, said.

Even without that supernatural component, Seaview Terrace has quite the backstory. Spread out over a staggering 43,770-square feet, this historic Elizabethan-Revival mansion is the fifth largest of Newport’s famed, Gilded Age “summer cottages” that include Cornelius Vanderbilt II’s conspicuous-consumption pile, the Breakers.

The home sits on eight hilltop acres just off Ruggles Avenue and runs alongside Newport’s famed Cliff Walk. For beach lovers, it’s a short stroll to Sheep Point Cove and the crashing Atlantic. Inside, Seaview boasts 29 bedrooms, 18 bathrooms, 10 fireplaces and a Great Room worthy of an English castle.

“It’s Seaview Terrace’s fascinating history, dating back to 1907 and Washington DC, that sets the house apart,” explains Savas, who shares the high-profile $29.9 million listing with Edge Realty RI colleague Aryn Hawks.

Back then, Edson Bradley Jr. was president of Kentucky whiskey distiller W.A. Gaines & Company, with exclusive rights to the “Old Crow” whiskey label. Under him, the company became the largest producer of sour mash whiskey in the world.

In 1907, Bradley purchased a mansion on Washington DC’s Dupont Circle and filled it with complete rooms from French chateaux that he had shipped to DC intact. But tiring of Washington society life, Bradley and his wife decided to move to fast-emerging Newport. In 1922, they bought the so-called Kernochan residence, a brick and half-timbered English manor house-style mansion, and commissioned leading New York architect Howard Greenley to do a complete makeover.

That redesign included disassembling most of the DuPont Circle mansion brick by brick, including all those imported rooms, and trucking it all to Newport to incorporate it into the Kernochan home. The move, which took two years, was the subject of an episode of Ripley’s Believe it or Not.

Following Bradley’s death in 1935, Seaview Terrace changed hands numerous times. It was used as a girls’ boarding school, and as the fictional Collinwood Mansion in ABCs’ hugely-successful ’60s vampire soap opera Dark Shadows.

After falling into disrepair, the estate was “rescued” by entrepreneur and mansion preservationist Martin Carey, who, in 1974, paid $270,000 for the spread. He promptly leased it to Salve Regina University, which used it until 2009. Since then it has largely stood empty.

Today, the three-story mansion features a first floor kept largely intact from the Edson Bradley days. Still preserved is the massive great room with its Whispering Gallery modeled after the one at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. It also has an early Renaissance stained-glass window, entitled “The Flagellation”, that was created in 1547 for Italy’s Duomo di Milan cathedral.

But according to Savas, while the first floor is still “magnificent”, the second and third floors still are stripped-out and basic from their years of being used as school dorms and accommodation for visiting America’s Cup sailing teams.

“If definitely needs some loving restoration. In terms of moving-in now and using the entire property as a home, probably not. But once restored, once returned to its former glory, it will be like nothing else in Newport. This is truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a true piece of history,” she adds.

By Howard Walker.

[whoviancumberbunny]

The Awakening of The Old……Memories

Inspired By this prompt & This Writing prompt  from @writing-challenges-and-prompts  & this prompt  From @givethispromptatry and this Prompt  From @soprompt and Prompt Numbers 3, 22, & 24 from Teasing prompts  by @creativepromptsforwriting​ 

Authors Note: this is in the same time line ats my two previous stories  

Love Takes A Toll   Ace In the Hole

The Awakening of The Old……Memories

Story By Melissa C. Scraper

Based On Characters From American Horror Story and Characters Created By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 Ana looked at him, they had arrived in the New Orleans the night before and Clay had barely slept. “Clay, you are not alone.”

 “I know, but I hang my head low ‘cause it is a part of me.” He looked at her and took her hand before he goes to the front door of his child hood home and he knocked on the door. He and Ana covered their noses it was obvious that Alicia hardly left the house and gave up after her son left. He cringed away as she reached out for him “Don’t invite me in Alicia. No mother should treat her son like a replacement for the husband who left her. I am the person I am because of you for the longest time I didn’t think I was worthy of Love.”

 As he and Ana walked away from the house “Kyle come back.”

��Clay “Kyle no longer Exists. I Am Clay Austin Zabel.  I buried Kyle Spencer at the funeral of my friends after that bus accident.” He takes Ana’s hand as they go back to the rental car. ”We all deserve a softer touch, than life deals us sometimes.  If you love someone, you should never hurt them.” They drive for a while so he can clear his head.  And they stop at park “Follow me.”  He said as he walks around to her side of the car and opens the door for her “I love you.”

 They arrive at secluded area in the park “I am glad you encouraged me to come back here.   The ghosts of the past will always exist.”  

 Ana looked at him and caressed his cheek “I love you, Clay. You never told me about the accident tht killed your friends.”

 “Survivor’s guilt I suppose.” He said kissing her hand “before I lose my nerve.” He takes out his phone and starts playing their favorite song “I really would like to hang out together for, like, a really long time. Like, the rest of our lives. I got us these cool rings we can wear if you agree.” He opens ring box containing silver ring set with Dark Brown Cat’s Eye stone.

 “It is the stone I said reminded me of your eyes when we were helping sherlock with the case at the gem show a few months ago.”  Ana said “What kind of proposal is that?” she laughed

 “I decided I was going to ask you to marry me when we were at your stepfather’s family home, in Maine.”  He had never understood what she meant by scent of a dream, when she described living in Collinwood.

 “Cup of tea?”  she asked as she poured tea from the thermos into his cup.  

 “Now I understand the story you wrote for creative writing.” He paused

 “You Mean Winter’s Heart?  That’s why we stayed at rose cottage even though I am not biologically a Collins, I still have legal ownership of Rose Cottage.”

 “So the man who built it said it could only be owned and lived in by female member of the Collins family. And until the 1960s it was then the female heirs started disappearing?”

 “Charles blames it on a family curse. I am more inclined to believe building mansion facing a cliff was probably a bad idea” he laughs

 He smiled at her “I do pay attention to the things you do.  I know we’ve only known each other for a little under two years.  But You are my muse. Life is never Dull when your uncle convinces us to help him with a case.”    He looked at her and ran his finger along her jaw “Not everyone can look as good as me… but you come close.”

 She laughs “Being cute cannot save you from everything.” As he leans forward and kisses her “I am more myself in London than you are in Maine.”

 “You know you love me.” He said “it comes in handy dating a woman who has two fathers who can call in favors. You didn’t seem like a person who would like to sit on the ground.”

  A few weeks later back in London…At the Diogenese Club.   Ana and Clay sign in on the guest book. They are Escorted to the Strangers’ Room “Hello Dad, why have you summoned us to the den of apathy, as Sherlock calls this place.  But I understand everyone needs refuge from their everyday lives.”

 “For some reason, I have yet to fathom. Your aunt Eurus wants to see you without kidnapping you this time and drugging you.”  He points them to chairs “Please sit.” He rings a pel and someone brings them tea and finger sandwiches. “Mr. Zabel, I will admit at first I wasn’t sure what to think of you. But i realized we have common ground we both want Anastasia to be safe.”

 He paused and carefully worded what he spoke next. “Even though I have only known you very short period of time, relatively speaking. No pun intended.  You are still family, Ana, and I Worry about you. Constantly. As well as sherlock in his owl way.  I have feeling you are too kind hearted to admit that you see the people around the way I do. Like goldfish.”  He hands them a box containing keys to a house “You can keep the art studio but I just think it would make more sense for you to live in a house.”

 “I am guessing this is the house we were looking at before we went to the states last month. We both know you have someone following us while we are out in public.” Ana said as she looks at the deed “Previous family has owned it since the 1920s and it is Art Deco and Nouveau style décor.”

 Mycroft nods  “Also a few of my clients have requested Mister Zabel do paintings for them. They have been to his solo exhibition and they quite enjoy his landscapes.”  He hands him three addresses

 “Thank you, Mycie…. Mister Holmes.”  He said as he stuck the pieces of paper in his wallet “Do I need to be natural born citizen to be a member of this club?”

  “Not really most of the members work for government.”

 After they leave the club Ana texts Sherlock a photo of her hand.   He paused in the middle of leaving his client’s home and looked at the photo, smiling to himself.  The Holmes Family wasn’t into social media. So Sherlock hadn’t heard about the engagement until Ana had tea with Molly and Mary. “John, I suppose Mary already told you. Ana and Clay are getting married.”

 John “Yes. We are going to offer to have Clay’s stag party.”

 “Are you sure about that?  Considering Lestrade ended up arresting us the night before your wedding.”

 “Is it true you sent Ana to a haunted house?”

 “Ghosts aren’t real. If they do she has more experience with them than I do.”

 “The Sherlock Holmes says that ghosts may exist!” John says with an overdramatic gasp as they get into the car.

 To be Continued….

 Friday, June 3, 2022

[collinsportmaine]

This little castle has got to be located somewhere on the Collinwood Estate! Maybe it’s the fabled House by the Sea? Or the cosy cottage Elizabeth was planning to give Carolyn and Jeb after their wedding.

Boldt Castle, Alexandria Bay, New York state (via weheartit)

[nightofsnarkshadows]

Dark Shadows Episode 7 Thoughts

i gotta get the next ep done today and i’m short on time so here’s the wiki’s summary: Teaser My name is Victoria Winters. The dead past drifts through the corridors of Collinwood and settles like dust in its corners. Spurred by hope and surrounded by fear, my search continues, as life itself continues. Not only for me, but for everyone else in this strange corner of the world, people who live with their own fears, their own hopes.

Sam returns home with drinking on his mind, but just as he begins to take his first drink, he is interrupted by Roger, who wants to talk to him sober, something Sam has no intention of doing.

Act I

Roger wants to know where Sam was last night, but Sam doesn't know. Sam reveals that he knew of Burke's arrival, which makes Roger angry. Roger's worried because Devlin's back in town. Sam is guilt-ridden about something and spent last night crying at the ocean. Roger wants to know what Sam intends to do about Burke, and Sam agrees that Burke probably wants revenge against Roger. Sam says he will do nothing.

At the Collinsport Inn diner, Burke doesn't recognize Maggie until she tells him that he used to pose for her father. Burke recalls he has an unfinished portrait at Sam’s house. Maggie alludes to her father's drinking by saying he hasn't felt like finishing anything for a few years unless it is 190 proof. Maggie asks Burke if he's made it, and he accuses her of being too nosy. Victoria shows up asking to use the phone and gets change from Maggie, who thinks she is brave for living at Collinwood. Burke asks Maggie to watch his coffee as he goes to see what Victoria is up to, revealing he knows who she is to Maggie in the process. Meanwhile, Roger is furious that Sam went to Collinwood and spoke to Victoria after agreeing to never go near Collinwood. Roger is determined to intercept Victoria before she sees Burke and discovers via telephone that Victoria has left Collinwood. Victoria is unable to complete her phone call and Burke is waiting when she leaves the phone booth.

Act II

Burke and Victoria have coffee and doughnuts together, but Victoria is very anxious to get away to make her telephone call. After running down their meeting, Burke points out he's her oldest friend in Collinsport. He tries to find out what she has heard about him and he offers her a doughnut several times. When she says he seems odd, he points out that she has left New York to come to a small town, opposite of what most girls would do. She points out that he has also come from the big city to a small town. He says he has his reasons, but doesn't understand hers. She gets up to try her telephone call again and he stops her. She explains she is being paid well to tutor a young boy and that is her only reason for coming there. Burke begs her to stay, insisting they will chat about the weather and clam chowder and nothing else. Maggie comes over to offer Victoria moral support and Burke sends her off to get a newspaper. After she leaves he tells Victoria that he modelled for her father. Burke slips and asks about Roger, and Victoria reminds him they were supposed to discuss clam chowder. She reveals that she told Roger about Burke's arrival, but refuses to say anything else. Roger somehow ends up at the front desk of the Inn, where he learns from Maggie that Victoria and Burke are having coffee in the restaurant. She asks Roger if he remembers Burke, and he leaves, without saying a word.

Act III

Burke tells Victoria about a time when he was 10 and got spanked at Collinwood while prowling through the West Wing looking for ghosts. When Burke tells her that a 10 year old boy could not resist exploring the town's real haunted house, Victoria says she doesn't believe in ghosts, which Burke questions, now that she has spent the night there. Maggie arrives with the newspaper and Victoria takes the opportunity to head back to the phone booth. Maggie mentions that Roger was in the lobby looking for her, but took off after she told him she was there with Burke. Burke expresses disappointment at missing a chance to see Roger again. Victoria goes to make her phone call. Burke plans to stop by Sam's, and is surprised to learn (from Maggie) that Sam drinks. Back at the house, Sam gets a call from Maggie, who is too late to tell Sam that Burke is on his way there. Sam isn't drunk enough to talk to Burke after Burke shows up at the Evans cottage. Burke’s happy to see Sam, though the opposite doesn’t appear to be true. Sam’s upset by Burke’s visit and finally asks him to leave.

Maggie meets Victoria in the lobby and asks how her telephone call is going. The phone rings, she asks for Miss Hopewell from the Hammond Foundling Home, she says it is important, very important!

Roger is a cunt.

Got more Maggie, yay!

People on tumblr keep telling me that Burke is a villain but he hasn’t actually done anything bad yet so y’all lyin’.

Also hey I just reread the summary and did whatever adult who lived in when Burke was 10 deadass spank a child that wasn’t their own?

Top 5 characters are the same.

[chrislaguna1-blog]

Carey Mansion, originally called Seaview Terrace, is a sprawling French Renaissance château located in Newport, Rhode Island. It was the last of the great "Summer Cottages" constructed, and is the fifth-largest of Newport's mansions. The television show Dark Shadows used its exterior as the fictional Collinwood Mansion. The majority of the house was originally built in DuPont Circle in Washington, DC by liquor baron Edson Bradley in 1907, taking 4 years to complete. The house occupied an entire city block and was known as Aladdin’s Palace, due to its sheer size and grandiose nature. The Bradleys then decided to move to a Newport, Rhode Island in February of 1923. They had the house dismantled and shipped to the new location over the next two years, accomplishing what is believed to be one of the largest homes to be relocated by road and rail. This remarkable feat was featured on 'Ripley’s Believe it or Not".

[whatithinkaboutdarkshadows]

Episode 669: Hide and seek

Governess Maggie Evans forbids her charges, David Collins and Amy Jennings, from going outside. They ask her to play hide and seek. She agrees, and accepts the role of It. She searches for them for a long time, ultimately finding them outdoors. She points out that she had told them to stay indoors, and they pretend not to have understood that this applied to their hiding places. Maggie does not…

[widowshill]

But it was clear to me the reason why he was so good at bending men towards his will was he knew the power of a story and how to harness it to his own ends.

dark shadows + black sails, "a story is true. a story is untrue."

ds 2 / bs "V" / ds 2 / bs "V" / ds 25 / bs "XXXVIII." / ds 38 / bs "XXXVIII." / ds 38 / bs "XXXVIII." / ds 65 / bs "VII." / ds 65 / bs. "VII." / ds 25 / bs "I." / ds 25 / bs "I." / ds 56 / bs "I." / ds 56 / bs “I.” / ds 56.

[whatithinkaboutdarkshadows]

Episode 668: Very odd games

When Ron Sproat joined the writing staff of Dark Shadows in the Autumn of 1966, he used his first several scripts to catalogue the ongoing storylines and classify them according to their potential for future use. Now Sproat is approaching the end of his time on the show, and he is again in a self-referential mood. Today’s episode is mostly about the geography of the great house of Collinwood and…

[widowshill]

“He is not to them what he is to me,” I thought: “he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine;—I am sure he is—I feel akin to him—I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him.” Jane Eyre, XVII.

18 / 139 / 91 / 78 / 2 / 12 / 75 / 80 / 75

[widowshill]

L for any Roger Davis character lmao.

A -> Z FANDOM ASKS.

L - Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves.

I actually think Charles Delaware Tate was a super interesting character, at least in the way they set up the narrative –– a late Victorian artist catapulted to fame on a faustian bargain, painting an ideal Galatea over and over, stunned to find her made real and then devastated to lose her. if he was a lou character i probably would have adored him! he also had one of the more unique (to my mind) supernatural abilities on the show, in painting things (or people) to have them appear barbie!rapunzel style, and I also love, loved his whole haunted mansion schtick in his old age with talking through the speakers, the false mannequin body etc. that was high camp and i loved every moment of the theatrical drama of it.

there's a lot of ... portraiture and the act of painting itself intersecting with the Collins legacy throughout the show, even way in the beginning long before any supernatural pictures show up ( i.e. the ancestors looking down on Roger in the drawing room, Victoria finding Betty's portrait and almost finding a link to her own past and legacy, David drawing Bill's murderer hanging, Burke having Sam paint his portrait to hang on the mantle when he owns Collinwood someday –– putting Tate in the Evans cottage set was a nice link to Sam, also). but obviously a lot of the bigger spooky plots are symbolized in their portraits – Barnabas gaining both acceptance and suspicion through his resemblance to his "ancestor," Laura's and Angelique's serving as warning, Josette's an eternal idealized yearning and haunting. so it was a nice moment to see Quentin's portrait actively come about ––  the Collins ancestor very literally preserved in an image ad infinitum – and to see the artist as executing power through their creation and control of that image, even to smother it into nature (with the overpainting) and thus into obscurity until he's resurrected back into the collins family mythos in 1969.

I also liked his artist frock a lot ! that was cute.

[widowshill]

navigation.

MUSES.

THE MATRIARCH. elizabeth collins stoddard. dark shadows. dossier. ic. THE PRODIGAL. roger collins. dark shadows. dossier. ic. THE GOVERNESS. victoria winters. dark shadows. dossier. ic. verses. THE LOVER. josette dupres. dark shadows. dossier. ic. THE SAILOR. lt. nathan forbes. dark shadows. dossier. ic. request: THE BYRONIC. captain bartholomew gore. the haunted mansion. dossier. ic. THE PROPRIETRESS. eleanor guthrie. black sails. dossier. ic. THE STARLET. magdalena temor. tower of terror. oc. dossier. ic.

BLOG NAV.

➤ meme. ┊ have your ghosts been talking to you? ➤ meme responses. ┊ boo ! ➤ answered. ┊ Collinsport 4099. ➤ edits & art. ┊ the evans cottage art gallery. ➤ atmosphere. ┊ welcome to the beginning and the end of the world. ➤ queue. ┊ the devils of a forgotten time have found their home. ➤ ooc. ┊ she’s nauseous，she’s hysterical，and she’s exhausted. ➤ music. ┊ the blue whale jukebox.

CHARACTER TAGS.

➤ roger collins. ┊ I and my ghosts want a drink. ➤ elizabeth collins stoddard. ┊ I belong to the house. the house belongs to me. ➤ victoria winters. ┊ because she’s lost and lonely. because she looks in shadows. ➤ josette dupres. ┊ it was a scent，not just any，it was hers: jasmine，seabreeze mixed. ➤ lieutenant nathan forbes. ┊ to death，the best of all possible worlds. ➤ captain bartholomew gore. ┊ there is no world beyond，it seems，only the waves and the wind. ➤ magdalena temor. ┊ I am queen of all my sins forgotten. am I still lost? once I was beautiful. now I am myself. ➤ eleanor guthrie. ┊ and it does not prosper，that sort of love. the love that a man can bear for his soil，his little kingdom.

RELATIONSHIPS: ROGER.

➤ roger collins & victoria winters. ┊ pain sometimes precedes pleasure，miss winters. ➤ roger collins & burke devlin. ┊ call me a sinner，mock me maliciously; I was your sleeplessness，I was your grief. ➤ roger collins & david collins. ┊ when the foundation’s laid so badly the whole house tilts，the sons inherit … grief. ➤ roger collins & elizabeth collins stoddard. ┊ how can I? these walls are my skin. this room is my heart. besides，I have a sister. ➤ roger collins & laura murdoch collins. ┊ to tell me that I had already a wife is empty mockery. ➤ roger collins & cassandra blair collins. ┊ incapable of love，of tenderness，of decency. she was not even normal. ➤ roger collins & carolyn stoddard. ┊ I didn’t know you had the choice.

RELATIONSHIPS: VICTORIA.

➤ burke devlin & victoria winters. ┊ look at me，what a soft thing i have become. so much of me is about you now. ➤ barnabas collins & victoria winters. ┊ I live in your warm life，and you shall die––die，sweetly die––into mine. ➤ maximilian de winter & victoria winters. ┊ I do love him so … his dreadful energy，and his blind，frustrated rages. ➤ anthony j. crowley & victoria winters. ┊ because I prayed this word: I want. ➤ victoria winters & carolyn stoddard. ┊ here，alone with you，I can’t pretend. ➤ victoria winters & david collins. ┊ the important thing is you and me. ➤ victoria winters & maggie evans. ┊ we rise graceful and resilient as flowers growing through the stone. ➤ arc: mrs. collins. ┊ collinwood will always mean home to me.

RELATIONSHIPS: ELIZABETH.

➤ elizabeth collins stoddard & annette ‘ned’ calder. ┊ only in that one way. ➤ elizabeth collins stoddard & betty hanscombe. ┊ death always comes more than once. every wound is both itself and its reflection. ➤ elizabeth collins stoddard & carolyn stoddard. ┊ persephone belonged to her mother. that was demeter’s gift to herself.

RELATIONSHIPS: JOSETTE

➤ josette dupres & jeremiah collins. ┊ learn the rapture of that cruelty，which yet is love. ➤ josette dupres & barnabas collins. ┊ but to die as lovers may –– to die together，so that they may live together. ➤ victoria winters & josette dupres. ┊ the dead after all，do not walk backwards but they do walk behind us.

AFFILIATIONS.

➤ collinwood. ┊ then who shall tear the curse from their blood? the house is glued to ruin. ➤ re: barnabas collins. ┊ luring me to a past that never was. this is the treachery. ➤ re: dr. julia hoffman. ┊ you're not blessed，or divine，or burdened. you're a science experiment. ➤ re: maggie evans. ┊ a peach tree growing in a coffee can. ➤ re: angélique bouchard collins. ┊ lovely-eyed. death-touched. witch. ➤ re: nicholas blair. ┊ I hate to bother you，but I am talking about evil. it blooms. it eats. it grins. ➤ re: burke devlin. ┊ I am stranded in a hungerland of great prosperity. ➤ re: carolyn stoddard. ┊ never the same girl twice. ➤ re: david collins. ┊ he's just been afflicted with the family disease. he's been seeing ghosts. ➤ re: laura murdoch collins. ┊ I want to watch a girl on fire with ruin on her lips. I want to see everything burn. ➤ re: joe haskell. ┊ on two wheels in the land of vampires. ➤ re: chris jennings. ┊ the wolfsong is the sound of the rending you will suffer，in itself a murdering. ➤ re: bill malloy. ┊ just the water. it pays us，and then it claims us，swallows us whole. ➤ re: quentin collins. ┊ merely a man of larger expectations than life has hitherto offered me. ➤ re: paul stoddard. ┊ then mourn not for thy husband's loss too much，nor waste thyself away.