Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media, Volume 29, 2017   Abstract: Dark Shadows began its long life as a television soap opera in the 1960s. It featured supernatural plots and characters, including a vampire named Barnabas Collins. Barnabas’s love story, the show’s producer claimed, was central to the plot and to the creation of a … Continue reading From Byronic Hero to Modern-Day Misfit: Dark Shadows, Barnabas Collins, and the Shift from Paranormal Romance to Burtonian Film ~ Erin Louttit