Sixty years ago, Victoria Winters boarded a train bound for Collinsport, Maine, and television viewers were introduced to the strange world of Dark Shadows. What began on June 27, 1966, as a Gothic daytime serial about a young woman’s search for answers would eventually become something considerably stranger — and far more enduring.
There were ghosts, witches, werewolves, journeys through time and alternate realities. Most famously, there was Barnabas Collins, the 18th-century vampire whose arrival transformed Dark Shadows into a genuine pop-culture phenomenon.
Six decades later, we’re still coming back to Collinwood.
That idea inspired “Come Back to Collinwood,” an original song created for Vampires & Slayers as a musical celebration of the show’s 60th anniversary. Rather than simply listing characters and storylines, the song takes a journey through the series — beginning with Victoria’s arrival and moving through Barnabas and Josette, Angelique’s curse, Dr. Julia Hoffman, the journey to 1795, Quentin Collins and 1897, werewolves, Leviathans, Parallel Time and more.
At the center of it all is Collinwood itself: that enormous house overlooking the sea where the past never seems willing to remain in the past.
“Come Back to Collinwood” is an original Vampires & Slayers song created with AI-assisted music and imagery.