#dark shadows every day
There are four basic monster categories on Dark Shadows — the dead, magicians, transformations and miscellaneous.
The key member of the magicians class, obviously, is Angelique, and later on in the series we’ll see Bathia Mapes, Nicholas Blair, Magda, Julianka, Count Petofi and the Parallel Time Timothy Stokes. You can also make a case that Julia and Dr. Lang are alchemists, which is basically the same thing as a magician, but using science-y talk.
The transformations category is mostly werewolves, but we’ve also got Cyrus Longworth in 1970, and Joshua turning into a cat. And then miscellaneous is for the vague, shadowy figures like Diabolos and the Leviathans.
But the core monster type is “the dead”, and we see lots of variations over the course of the series. This includes ghosts, vampires, specters, zombies, Frankensteins, succubi and whatever the plural of “phoenix” is.
Episode 393: Tell Them We Are Rising
Dark Shadows explained.
