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Dark Shadows The Complete Paperback Library SC (2020-2023 Hermes Press) comic books 2021-2023

  • Issue #13-1ST
    Dark Shadows The Complete Paperback Library SC (2020-2023 Hermes Press) 13-1ST


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    Volume 13 - 1st printing. "Barnabas Collins and the Mysterious Ghost!"

    By Marilyn Ross.

    The original, classic, Dark Shadows books from the Paperback Library, return with Hermes Press' archival reprint of all 32 titles in the series.

    The thirteenth book in this reprint series is titled Barnabas Collins and the Mysterious Ghost. The beautiful Diana Samson, part of a visiting ballet troupe and 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 opened, the old legend of the invisible ghost of Collinwood is revived!

    Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 144 pages, Text Only.

    Cover price $14.99.

  • Issue #14-1ST
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    Volume 14 - 1st printing. "Barnabas Collins and Quentin's Demon!"

    By Marilyn Ross.

    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? Lara faces the terrifying possibility that her brooding, sensitive host is a werewolf.

    She won't leave Collinwood, for that would mean leaving Barnabas, whom she has come to love. But will Barnabas be able to save her, if she stays?

    Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 144 pages, Text Only.

    Cover price $14.99.

  • Issue #15-1ST
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    Volume 15 - 1st printing. "Barnabas Collins and the Gypsy Witch!"

    By Marilyn Ross.

    Warned by a gypsy witch that violent death will surround her, Roxanna Collins turns to her distant cousin, Barnabas, for help. But Barnabas is also in trouble. For when Roxanna's father and brother are murdered, suspicion centers on Barnabas. Even Roxanna, who feels she is under some strange spell, soon begins to doubt the man she has come to love. To save his life, Barnabas must prove to the police that he is innocent. And he must find the key to the madness and mystery surrounding Collinwood before Roxanna becomes the next victim in a nightmare of evil.

    Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 144 pages, Text Only.

    Cover price $14.99.

  • Issue #16-1ST
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    Volume 16 - 1st printing. "Barnabas, Quentin and the Mummy's Curse!"

    By Marilyn Ross.

    The original, classic, Dark Shadows books from the Paperback Library, return with Hermes Press' archival reprint of all 32 titles in the series. The sixteenth book in this reprint series is Barnabas, Quentin and the Mummy's Curse.

    When Professor Anthony Collins decides to catalog his Egyptian relics at Collinwood he brings with him the mummy of King Rehotip, who "died" over 2,000 years ago. Only the professor knows that Rehotip is really in a state of suspended animation. A young girl is killed, and the police suspect Quentin Collins. Maggie Evans however, is certain the killer is the mummy and wants to warn the police. Frightened into silence, Maggie lives in terror, wondering if she will be the next victim.

    Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 144 pages, Text Only.

    Cover price $14.99.

  • Issue #17-1ST
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    Volume 17 - 1st printing. "Barnabas, Quentin and the Avenging Ghost!"

    By Marilyn Ross.

    The classic Dark Shadows books from the Paperback Library, return with Hermes Press' archival reprint of all 32 titles in the series.

    When the jury of which Roger Collins is chairman find Harriet Barnes guilty of murder, she swears vengeance on the entire Collins family, then kills herself. Soon Celia Dalton, a guest at Collinwood, begins 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 blood-thirsty killer?

    Can Barnabas and Quentin save Celia -and the Collins family -from this menace out of the crypt?

    Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 144 pages, Text Only.

    Cover price $14.99.

  • Issue #18-1ST
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    Volume 18 - 1st printing. "Barnabas, Quentin and the Nightmare Assassin!"

    By Marilyn Ross.

    The original, classic Dark Shadows books from the Paperback Library, return with Hermes Press' archival reprint of all 32 titles in the series.

    Knocked unconscious in an auto accident, Carolyn awakens in 1870 and meets Barnabas and Quentin. Suffering under the curse of the werewolf, Quentin arranges to be assassinated but later changes his mind. Once the die is cast however, the assassin may be unstoppable.

    Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 144 pages, Text Only.

    Cover price $14.99.

  • Issue #20-1ST
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    Volume 20 - 1st printing. "Barnabas, Quentin and the Witch's Curse!"

    By Marilyn Ross.

    Against her will, Anita Burgess accompanies her brother Jeffrey to Collinwood. He is determined to get revenge against Quentin Collins who he believes is responsible for his best friend's death. Pretending friendship toward Quentin, Anita and Jeffrey learn he has established a Black Magic center at Collinwood and has several young women completely under his power.

    Jeffrey enlists Barnabas's aid in his struggle to destroy Quentin, both to avenge his friend's death and to free the young women. But he does not realize that by destroying Quentin, he risks destroying Anita as well.

    Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 144 pages, Text Only.

    Cover price $14.99.

  • Issue #23-1ST
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    Volume 23 - 1st printing. "Barnabas, Quentin and the Scorpio Curse!"

    By Marilyn Ross.

    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. T

    hen Diana Collins, another Collins family relative, finds a bloody knife in her room. Diana, whose astrological sign is Scorpio, is afraid that she may have committed the murders during one of her blackouts. The fear that she is losing her mind is compounded when no one will believe she has seen a strange, wolf-like creature prowling the grounds. The only person who will listen to her story is Barnabas.

    But how can he help her when he too has become a suspect?

    Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 144 pages, Text Only.

    Cover price $14.99.

  • Issue #25-1ST
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    Volume 25 - 1st printing. "Barnabas, Quentin and the Magic Potion!"

    By Marilyn Ross.

    Barnabas predicts trouble for Collinwood when Nicholas Freeze discovers a centuries-old potion that promises eternal youth. Soon after, Mr. Freeze's daughter Hazel, tricked into taking the serum, dies. Carolyn is grief-stricken over her friend's death. Barnabas insists she stay on at the shop to watch Nicholas Freeze and his associates, one of whom Carolyn suspects is Quentin Collins, back at Collinwood in a disguise. Then Carolyn sees Hazel's ghost! Has Barnabas made a fatal mistake by deliberately endangering Carolyn's life?

    Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 144 pages, Text Only.

    Cover price $14.99.

  • Issue #26-1ST
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    Volume 26 - 1st printing. "Barnabas, Quentin and the Body Snatchers!"

    By Marilyn Ross.

    In an alien spaceship hidden in a swamp near Collinwood, Roger Collins and his friend, space scientist Murdoch 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 Murdoch. Although Elizabeth and Carolyn sense a difference, they can't guess that they are at the mercy of beings who will stop at nothing to prevent the next U.S. space flight under Murdoch's direction! Then, as the dark shadow of death draws closer to Collinwood, a bat soars over the hidden spaceship, flies close enough to see inside... and suddenly Barnabas and Quentin Collins find themselves joined in a desperate attempt to save Collinwood from the strangest menace it has ever known!

    Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 144 pages, Text Only.

    Cover price $17.99.