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The Demon of Barnabas Collins (April 1969)
The arrival of a movie company at Collinwood gives Barnabas a chance to escape Angelique's awful curse-the curse which has made him one of the living dead.
Barnabas meets and falls in love with beautiful film star, Rita Glenn. In order to save him, she introduces him to the mysterious Dr. Moreno who has a cure for Barnabas.
Barnabas is jubilant over his recovery-but not for long. Suddenly he is in a life...
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Barnabas, Quentin and the Vampire Beauty (March 1972)
While on a ski vacation in Switzerland, beautiful model Adele Marriot meets Dr. Stefan Soivak. He tells her of his discovery of an operating technique that will keep her forever thin. Adele agrees to have the operation and enters the doctor's clinic.
Once there, Adele realizes she is virtually a prisoner. Against her will, she undergoes the operation. When she recovers she finds she has been...
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"I am NOT a witch!"
Regina Widden stirred restlessly in her bed as she fought to pull herself out of her nightmare...
At last, she opened her eyes and found that she was on a narrow cot in a small cottage. She turned to see a candle in a pewter holder burning on a wooden table beside her.
Suddenly, the door burst open and a young girl rushed in. Regina recognized her friend, Peggy.
"Regina Blake! You must get away from here at once!"
"Where am...
4) Shorecliff
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Will Anita lose her husband to the ghost with the porcelain face?
When they inherit an ancient mansion, Anita and her husband Charles move in. From the very beginning of their arrival at Shorecliff, Anita notices the change that comes over her husband.
Charles turns into a sullen and brooding stranger. He becomes obsessed with the legend of Amanda, a vain and beautiful murderess who kept forever young by wearing a mask of porcelain. Though dead...
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Victoria Winters (March 1967).
Still trying to uncover the secret of her own identity, Victoria Winters continues her life at Collinwood. The unexpected arrival of mysterious strangers at the brooding manor instills terrible fears in her.
Horrified at their lies and their evil, menacing gestures, Victoria wonders if these guests have come to kill her. Terror shrouds Collinwood as Victoria finds herself the prey of these cruel tormentors.
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Secret of Barnabas Collins (January 1969)
Here is another never-before-told story of the handsome, mysterious 175-year-old vampire.
While searching for the woman who will replace his long-lost Josette, and thus end the terrible curse upon him, Barnabas meets lovely Clare Duncan. The story, set in 1870, of their romance-and of the terror it brings to the beautiful young noblewoman-I a tale of gothic suspense which will chill and delight the legions...
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Barnabas, Quentin and the Nightmare Assassin (June 1970)
Carolyn Stoddard is knocked unconscious when the sports car she and Barnabas are riding in skids on a patch of ice. She regains consciousness in Collinwood with Barnabas and Quentin Collins at her side-but the year is 1870! And Collinwood is being terrorized by a savage killer. Carolyn likes Quentin and refuses to believe that even in werewolf form, he could be the murderer.
But even...
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Pamela Wales, the young governess at Ravenswood, can hardly believe her luck. The man she adores - the brooding master of the palatial estate - wants her for his wife.
For a little while she is so happy that she ignores the servants' gossip of old scandals and her fiancé's involvement in a recent murder. Suddenly she is almost killed. Then a ghost pursues her through the mansion's sinister corridors.
But the man she loves refuses to believe her....
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Barnabas, Quentin and the Body Snatchers (February 1971)
In an alien spaceship hidden in a swamp near Collinwood, Roger Collins and his friend, space scientist Murdock Gray, lie bound and gagged-yet no one even knows they are missing! For their captors are able to change shapes at will, and two of them have "become" Roger and Murdock. Although Elizabeth and Carolyn sense a difference, they can't guess that they are at the mercy of beings who will...
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Barnabas Collins and the Mysterious Ghost (January 1970)
Collinwood is plagued with a series of menacing events when a ballet troupe arrives there to perform for the summer tourists. One girl in particular, the beautiful Diana Samson, whom Barnabas has come to love, is repeatedly attacked by a mysterious, invisible presence.
When the star of the ballet is murdered, everyone is suspect-including Diana and Barnabas. And when several graves are found...
11) Memory of Evil
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Would Anna become another victim of the eerie menace - or was she the menace itself?
Anna Percival drifted through the shadowy rooms of the old dark house in a sleepwalker's trance. And wherever she went a strange death was sure to follow.
Many years before, at Land's End Manor, lived another Anna, a murderess of uncommon cunning and cruelty. Gossipy villagers tried to make Anna Percival believe that the other Anna's evil spirit lived in her!
Yet...
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Barnabas, Quentin and the Scorpio Curse (November 1970)
Is the sign of Scorpio the mark of death?
Terror reigns at Collinwood when several patients at a nearby psychiatric clinic at which Barnabas Collins is a patient are stabbed to death. Each victim's forehead is marked with a scorpion, the zodiacal symbol of death.
Then Diana Collins, another relative of the Collins family who is undergoing psychiatric treatment at the hospital, finds a bloody...
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Barnabas, Quentin and the Hidden Tomb (December 1971)
Ellen awoke to see a ghostly figure moving through the shadows to her bedside.
"Ellen!" Her name was whispered hoarsely, but she recognized the voice. It was Aunt Kate's.
"What's wrong?" Ellen asked, getting out of bed.
"Dying..."
Ellen sprang to her and eased her aunt down on the bed. "What is it?"
"Danger... vampire."
Ellen found matches and lit the candle on her bedside table. As she...
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The Phantom and Barnabas Collins (September 1969).
Maggie Evans visits the Collins family graveyard and is transported back in time to the year 1880. There she awakes, an amnesia victim, at a Collinwood she barely recognizes. All that seems familiar are the house itself and the family's guest, Barnabas Collins.
Slowly, Maggie learns she is trapped in a nightmare. She has fallen into the hands of Dr. Giles Collins, whose mysterious experiments with...
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Barnabas, Quentin and the Sea Ghost (August 1971)
Centuries ago, Jenny Swift ruled her cutthroat crew of pirates with a blacksnake whip. Now, legend says, her ghost still guards the treasure ship where it sank in Collinsport Cove, meting out death to those rash enough to seek her gold. But Norah Bliss and her father, both salvage experts, are skeptical. Invited to Collinwood to recover the treasure, they accept eagerly.
At Collinwood, Norah finds...
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Barnabas Collins and Quentin's Demon (February 1970)
When Quentin Collins invited Lara Balfour to Collinwood, they knew each other only from the correspondence that had grown out of Quentin's admiration for the haunting waltz her father had composed.
Soon Quentin professes to love Lara-but is his love really a threat? His first wife's throat was torn out by a wolflike creature who escaped capture. Since then, other young women have died in the same...
17) Dark Legend
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The Dark Legend of Dunbar Manor terrified Ann Randall. How long could she endure its horrifying attacks on her sanity - and her life?
Dunbar Manor had always been a place of fear for Ann Randall. Years ago her mother had been killed there by a black-hooded figure who escaped capture. There were those who said that the phantom-like "thing" still roamed the eerie grounds at the dark of the moon.
Ann had never expected to return to Dunbar Manor. But...
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Barnabas, Quentin and the Avenging Ghost (May 1970)
When the jury of which Roger Collins is chairman finds Harriet Barnes guilty of murder, she swears vengeance on the entire Collins family, then kills herself.
Soon, Celia Dalton, a guest at Collinwood, starts suffering strange spells. Each time she does, someone at Collinwood is violently attacked. Has Harriet Barnes taken over her spirit, making the innocent girl a bloodthirsty killer? Can...
19) Phantom Manor
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From the moment she came to live at Phantom Manor, a rotting pile of stone she had suddenly inherited, Jan Davis became the terrified victim of a series of "accidents."
The lurking murderer could be anyone whose life was tied to the dread secret of the eerie mansion; a homicidal, half-witted young man; a jealous relative who wanted the manor for herself; even a neighboring landowner with whom Jan had fallen in love.
But the hidden villain of Phantom...
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Barnabas, Quentin and the Frightened Bride (October 1970)
Ann and John Hayward's honeymoon at Collinwood slowly turns into a series of nightmares.
Soon after their arrival, John, who is recovering from a war injury, falls victim to strange, violent spells. In a fit of irrational jealousy, he accuses his wife of falling in love with Barnabas Collins.
Meanwhile, a series of attacks on her life frighten Ann into believing John is trying to kill her....
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