Shadowed Beginnings

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Title:	Shadowed Beginnings
Publisher:	Kathy Resch & A Pentagram Publication
Editor:
Author(s):	Carol Maschke
Cover Artist(s):
Illustrator(s):	Anne-Marie Erental
Date(s):	May 1988
Medium:	print
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Fandom:	Dark Shadows
Language:	English
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cover art by Anne Marie Erental

Shadowed Beginnings is a het Dark Shadows novel by Carol Maschke.

Artwork has been uploaded to Fanlore with the publisher's permission.

Summaries

From Media Monitor: "An unforseen tragedy forces Julia to vanish from Collingsport. When Eliot Stokes finds her, he defies her wishes and tells Barnabas her whereabouts. But when Barnabas finds her, he discovers new levels to his feelings, and to the tangled consequences of love."

From an ad in The World of Dark Shadows #71/72: "Julia Hoffman's disappearance from Collinwood greatly worried her friends. When Elliot Stokes found her, the secret she told him revealed more pain and personal tragedy than she'd ever known.'"

Reactions and Reviews

From a review in The Collins Mausoleum #3:

Carol Maschke’s Shadowed Beginnings.... was a compelling realization of the re-imagined Julia Hoffman. Maschke expanded the characters (primarily Barnabas and Julia) in a manner that seemed plausible and within the framework of the series. Although considerably heavier on romance than on the supernatural, the author seamlessly integrated pivotal flashbacks (detours to the supernatural element) to the plot and sustained the high emotional pitch characteristic of the series. All in all, it was convincing and well-executed.