Rondos name COLLINSPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY Best Blog of 2012

Well, this was an unexpected surprise. The RONDO HATTON CLASSIC HORROR AWARDS have named THE COLLINSPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY the "Best Blog" of 2012! All I hoped for was to get DARK SHADOWS mentioned somewhere in this year's award winners. I've been a big fan of Pierre Fournier's FRANKENSTEINIA and Stacie Ponder's FINAL GIRL blogs for years, and it was just a thrill to see my blog mentioned next to theirs in the list of nominees.I never dreamed this site had a chance at actually winning.

And that's not all: DARK SHADOWS was mentioned frequently throughout the award winners. Here's the complete list:

BEST BLOG
THE COLLINSPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY

BEST INTERVIEW (Award goes to interviewer)
MICHAEL CULHANE, interviews Jonathan Frid and other original DARK SHADOWS cast members, FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #261

FILM MOST IN NEED OF DVD RELEASE OR RESTORATION
NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS (1971)
 
BEST THEMED ISSUE (tie)
MONSTERS FROM THE VAULT #30 (Vincent Price Remembered)
*VIDEO WATCHDOG #169 (Dark Shadows)

BEST CLASSIC DVD
ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (Blu-Ray)
Runners-up: ROSEMARY'S BABY; GOJIRA/GODZILLA (Criterion Blu-Ray)
*Honorable mentions: NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS/HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS; TWINS OF EVIL

BEST CLASSIC HORROR COLLECTION
UNIVERSAL CLASSIC MONSTERS: THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION (Blu-Ray)
*Runner-up: DARK SHADOWS: Complete Original Series (131 DVDs)

BEST FILM OF 2012
CABIN IN THE WOODS
Runner-up: THE AVENGERS
*Honorable mention: WOMAN IN BLACK; DARK SHADOWS

Thanks to all of you who voted, as well as to those of you who meant to vote but forgot (I was almost among the latter, myself.) I'm also incredibly grateful to people like Will McKinley, Patrick McCray, David-Elijah Nahmod, Darren Gross, Jessica Dwyer and Bill Branch, who have pitched in over the last year to help make this website about something more than my own eccentric ramblings. The cast members of the original show have also been incredibly kind to me. Kathryn Leigh Scott, David Selby, Sharon Lentz and Lara Parker have all added an air of legitimacy to THE COLLINSPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY by visiting with us. This site's first year has been fun and surreal ... and we're just getting started.