Cover Artwork by Stuart Manning

Author's Notes
This time last year, I knew absolutely nothing about Dark Shadows. Nothing at all... Come to think of it, anything I thought I did know actually turned out to be about the BBC children’s series Dark Season instead - that’s how little I knew!

It’s a very strange experience to become excited about a television series you’ve never seen or grown up with, but I knew I wanted to become involved with Dark Shadows as soon as the series’ premise was described to me. The fact that it was being done on audio appealed to me no end, if only because the horror of our stories instantly had to become more psychological rather than visual, prying into anxieties your subconscious didn’t even know it had!

The Book of Temptation is a contained and intimate tale, designed to deal with the apprehensions and threats that stalk the Collins family wherever they go and whoever they meet, even within their own ancestral home of Collinwood. And, of course, we take the opportunity to delve a little deeper into the history of Collinsport itself: a world created with such relish by the late, great Dan Curtis… a world with so much more to offer than our own.

Welcome back!

Scott Handcock
May 2006

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