Nights of Dan Curtis Second Edition: The Television Epics of the Dark Shadows Auteur

The award-winning producer-director Dan Curtis could do it all--and did. For television Curtis created the Gothic serial Dark Shadows and made horror movies (The Night Strangler) crime dramas (The Great Ice Rip-Off) trilogies (Dead of Night) family dramas (The Long Days of Summer) love stories (The Love Letter) and more. The revised second edition of this book provides an overview of all four dozen of Dan Curtiss productions from Challenge Golf (1963) to Our Fathers (2005). Nights of Dan Curtis takes an even more detailed look at the auteur directors influential production of Dracula (CBS 1974); two of his crime dramas Melvin Purvis G-Man and The Kansas City Massacre (ABC 1974 1975); his exuberant Western The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang (NBC 1979); his pair of epic miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance (ABC 1983 1988/1989); and his UFO miniseries Intruders: They Are Among Us (CBS 1992). Also included are rare photographs factual significa and information about newer events in the world of Dark Shadows such as Tim Burtons 2012 film Dark Shadows and David Gregorys 2019 documentary Master of Dark Shadows. Nights of Dan Curtis features more than 115 photographs a foreword by CHiPs star Larry Wilcox a preface by My Music producer Jim Pierson and an afterword by Loon Lake director Ansel Faraj.