Jonathan Frid's Website

Above, actor Jonathan Frid at a Dark Shadows convention in 1984. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

There's an interesting website for those of you who may be fans of the old ABC-TV afternoon spook-opera, Dark Shadows.

Actor Jonathan Frid, who portrayed the guilt-ridden vampire Barnabas Collins on the show, has his own website in which he ruminates about his career, takes questions from fans and hawks merchandise items.

At times, Frid seems to try to avoid the Barnabas Collins period of his career, and at other times he embraces it. To him, being Barnabas was just a job at the time and had no inkling of the impact his portayal had on his loyal fans. That is, until he started getting around 5,000 fan letters a day.

Frid prefers to discuss his career before Barnabas and his career post-Dark Shadows. Still, he has a dry sense of humor about it all, and he describes his notorious flubbed lines or nervousness. Occasionally, he finds that certain episodes of Dark Shadows contain great scenes that he is proud of.

Now in his 80s, Frid is still sharp as a tack and is planning to appear at the Dark Shadows Festival in Burbank this summer.

To visit Jonathan Frid's website, go here.

Additionally, Frid is to reprise his role as Barnabas Collins in a new audio drama.

From the press release from Big Finish Productions:

Big Finish Productions is proud to announce that Jonathan Frid will be returning to the role of vampire Barnabas Collins for the very first time in The Night Whispers, an all-new Dark Shadows audio drama. As reluctant vampire Barnabas Collins, Jonathan Frid helped establish Dark Shadows as a pop culture phenomenon.