Growing up in the 1980s, I’m pretty sure I was one of only a few little kids who knew the Dark Shadow theme by heart. My mom loved the tv show and taped reruns off of TV to watch at night while my sister and I would cower behind couch cushions with our toys.

Dark Shadows was a gothic sci-fi soap opera created during the late 1960’s featuring the cursed, but rich, Collins family and a full complement of supernatural beings (vampires, werewolves, witches, ghosts, and the like) causing mischief and mayhem at the family homestead, Collinwood. Collinwood itself, was a sprawling mansion perched atop a seaside cliff battered by seemingly never-ending storms and hidden in thick banks of fog, on the coast of Maine.

In my heart, Maine has always been an extension of Collinwood: dark, sinister, and haunted. And despite a recent road trip this summer that stretched from Portland Maine to Campobello Islan, filled with picturesque seaside towns, busy harbors, oppressive humidity and luscious, buttery, lobster rolls, I still fit in plenty of cliff-side walks, foggy mornings and lonely, rocky beaches to sate my childhood nostalgia and raise goosebumps on my arms.

To that end, I hope you enjoy my photos below and check out my TV inspiration Dark Shadows for a scare (and maybe a laugh) on a dark and stormy night.