Up until now, we have made due with a single "Dark Shadows" thread which comprises all related topics lumped together, but now I find it preferable to break out "Seances and Sources" for ease of reference and update.
SEANCE SCORECARD:
SEANCE #1: Episode 170
Participants: Guthrie, Roger, Carolyn & Vicki (+ Laura)
Purpose: To contact Josette
Results: Josettte speaks through Vicki (in French)
SEANCE #2: Episode 186
Participants: Vicki, Sam Evans & David
Purpose: To contact Josette
Results: David Radcliffe speaks through David
SEANCE #3: Episodes 280/281
Participants: Roger, Liz, Carolyn, Vicki, Burke & Barnabas
Purpose: To contact any spirit which will answer
Results: Josette speaks through Vicki (in English)
SEANCE #4: Episode 365(461)
Participants: Roger, Liz, Carolyn, Vicki, Julia & Barnabas
Purpose: To contact Sarah
Results: Vicki sent on a "uncertain and frightening journey into the past"
SEANCE #5: Episodes 511/512
Participants: Stokes, Julia & Tony
Purpose: To contact Trask
Results: Trask manifests in the present
SEANCE #6: Episode 600
Participants: Stokes, Julia & Barnabas
Purpose: To contact Philippe Cordier
Results: Philippe Cordier speaks through Barnabas (in an outrageous French accent)
SEANCE #7: Episode 640
Participants: David and Amy
Purpose: To contact Quentin Collins
Results: Interrupted by Vicki
SEANCE #8: Episode 642
Participants: Stokes, Chris Jennings, Liz, Carolyn and Vicki
Purpose: To contact Jeff Clark
Results: Magda Rakosi speaks through Carolyn
SEANCE #9: Episode 682
Participants: Stokes, Barnabas, Maggie and Mrs. Johnson
Purpose: To contact Janet Findley
Results: Janet Findley speaks through Mrs. Johnson
SEANCE #10: Episode 797
Participants: Barnabas, Quentin and Magda
Purpose: To contact Julianka
Results: Julianka refuses to cure Quentin and curses Magda
SEANCE #11: Episodes 860/861
Participants: Pansy Faye, Kitty and Edward
Purpose: To contact any spirit to help Kitty
Results: Interrupted by Judith returning from the sanitarium
SEANCE #12: Episode 898
Participants: Julia Hoffman, Chris Jennings and David Collins
Purpose: To contact Quentin Collins
Results: Jamison Collins speaks through David
SEANCE #13: Episode 948
Participants: Barnabas, Julia, Maggie
Purpose: To contact Josette Collins
Results: Josette speaks through Maggie
SEANCE #14: Episode 990 (Parallel Time)
Participants: Elizabeth, Roger, Alexis, Bruno, Cyrus, Sabrina
Purpose: To re-enact the seance at which Angelique Collins died
Results: An unidentified spirit speaks through Sabrina; Alexis faints
SEANCE #15: Episode 1008/1009 (Parallel Time)
Participants: Quentin & Angelique (masquerading as Alexis); Hoffman leaves early
Purpose: To contact the original Barnabas Collins
Results: Jeremiah Collins appears with a vague warning of "evil"
DARK SHADOWS LITERARY AND CINEMATIC SOURCES:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - (Victoria Winters)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller - (1795, Victoria, Abigail and Trask)
"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe - (1795, Barnabas and Trask)
"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold - (Roger recites this poem while under Angelique's spell)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - (Adam)
The Bride of Frankenstein by Universal Studios - (Eve)
The Bible - (Adam & Eve)
"The Premature Burial" by Edgar Allan Poe - (Elizabeth)
The Wolfman by Universal Studios - (Chris Jennings)
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (The ghosts of Quentin Collins and Beth Chavez)
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe (Quentin and Edith Collins)
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (Worthingtom Hall)
"The Monkey's Paw" by Guy de Maupassant (The Hand of Count Petofi)
"The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe (Quentin and Aristede)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Quentin's portrait)
"The Devil and Daniel Webster" by Stephen Vincent Benét (The Trial of Magda Rakosi)
"A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns - (This poem is part of Kitty Soames' dream of Josette)
H.P. Lovecraft's The Cthulhu Mythos (specifically "The Dunwich Horror") - (The Leviathans)
Village of the Damned - (The Leviathan child)
Greek Mythology: "Orpheus & Eurydice in the Underworld" - (Quentin & Amanda)
Star Trek "Mirror, Mirror" (?) - (Parallel Time)
Daphne Du Maurier (and Alfred Hitchcock's) Rebecca - (Angelique & Maggie in Parallel Time)
Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde - Cyrus Longworth/John Yaeger in Parallel Time)
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