A couple of weeks back, Bob Issel and I appeared on Penny Dreadful's Terror at Collinwood podcast to talk about his latest Dark Shadows volume, Our Shadowed Past III, which he and I spent several weeks producing, back in August and
September (see
"Our Shadowed Past III Is in the Works," September 16, 2025). Penny Dreadful—a.k.a. Danielle Gelehrter—has been running this
Dark Shadows–themed show for I don't know many years now, and I've had the honor of
appearing on it numerous times. This time around, Bob and I get into the nuts
and bolts about how Our Shadowed Past III was conceived,
developed, and produced, and how so many Dark Shadows fans
contributed meaningful essays, stories, artwork, and photographs to bring
Bob's most ambitious publishing project to life.
The book itself is 256 big-ass pages in full, bloody color, with hundreds of
photographs of countless events and fan gatherings, with an entire section
devoted to those at Seaview Terrace in Newport, Rhode Island, which
served as Collinwood in the original Dark Shadows TV series (1966–1971).
We had a great time on the podcast, and our thanks to Penny Dreadful for
seeing fit to inflict Bob and me upon an unsuspecting world.
