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Back cover
Victoria Winters arrives at
Collins House (called Collinwood in later volumes) to serve as governess to young David Collins. Visiting the house is
Ernest Collins,
who is grieving for his wife. (Elizabeth and Roger's cousin Ernest was
not a character on the TV show.) In no time, Victoria finds herself
falling in love with Ernest, though she is the focus of a number of
mysterious attacks and wonders just how Ernest became a widower...
Notes
This volume was first printed before
Jonathan Frid joined the cast of
Dark Shadows as vampire
Barnabas Collins. Its original cover only featured a painting of Victoria in front of
Collinwood.
After Barnabas became extremely popular, this volume (as well as
numbers 2 through 4) were reprinted with a photo cover featuring Frid
and
Alexandra Moltke.
Even though Frid/Barnabas is shown on these covers, Barnabas is not in
any of the stories of these first five books. (He joins the cast of
characters in the sixth book, appropriately titled
Barnabas Collins (novel), which only features a cameo appearance by Victoria.
