Read-alikes and related books

Books like Dark Shadows

Readers who finished Dark Shadows by Harry M. Benshoff and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Television, History & Criticism, and Performing Arts.

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Top related books to Dark Shadows

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Dark Shadows.

A Feminine Cinematics Luce Irigaray, Women and Film — Caroline Bainbridge

A Feminine Cinematics Luce Irigaray, Women and Film

Caroline Bainbridge

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

Investigating Murdoch Mysteries The Official Companion to the Series — Michelle Ricci

Investigating Murdoch Mysteries The Official Companion to the Series

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

Making Sense of Television The Psychology of Audience Interpretation — Sonia M. Livingstone

Making Sense of Television The Psychology of Audience Interpretation

Sonia M. Livingstone

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

Seinfeldia How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything — Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

Seinfeldia How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

The Fix is in The Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and NASCAR — Brian Tuohy

The Fix is in The Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and NASCAR

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

The Inbetweeners Scriptbook The Complete Scripts with Added Extras — Damon Beesley

The Inbetweeners Scriptbook The Complete Scripts with Added Extras

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

Housework and Housewives in American Advertising Married to the Mop — Jessamyn Neuhaus

Housework and Housewives in American Advertising Married to the Mop

Jessamyn Neuhaus

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

End of an Era Mad Men and the Ordeal of Civility — James J. O’Meara

End of an Era Mad Men and the Ordeal of Civility — James J. O’Meara

James J. O'Meara

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

Producing Public Television, Producing Public Culture — Barry Dornfeld

Producing Public Television, Producing Public Culture

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

The Mystery of the Masked Man’s Music A Search for the Music Used on ‘The Lone Ranger’ Radio Program, 1933-1954 — Reginald M. Jones

The Mystery of the Masked Man’s Music A Search for the Music Used on ‘The Lone Ranger’ Radio Program, 1933-1954

Reginald M. Jones

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

The Worst We Can Find MST3K, RiffTrax, and the History of Heckling at the Movies — Dale Sherman

The Worst We Can Find MST3K, RiffTrax, and the History of Heckling at the Movies

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

Thinking Through Television — Ron Lembo

Thinking Through Television

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

Good Neighbor The Life and Work of Fred Rogers — Maxwell King

Good Neighbor The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

Emergency! Behind the Scene — Richard Yokley

Emergency! Behind the Scene

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

Ryan Murphy’s Queer America — Brenda R. Weber

Ryan Murphy’s Queer America

Brenda R. Weber

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

The Fairy Tales of Jim Henson Keeping the Best Place by the Fire — Andrea Wright

The Fairy Tales of Jim Henson Keeping the Best Place by the Fire

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

Welcome to The O.C The Oral History — Josh Schwartz

Welcome to The O.C The Oral History

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

In My Humble Opinion My So-Called Life — Soraya Roberts

In My Humble Opinion My So-Called Life

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

Oscar Wars A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears — Michael Schulman

Oscar Wars A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

Michael Schulman

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

Screening Culture, Viewing Politics An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India — Purnima Mankekar

Screening Culture, Viewing Politics An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India

Purnima Mankekar

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

Pandora’s Box How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV — Peter Biskind

Pandora’s Box How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

Italian Cinema Gender and Genre — M. Günsberg

Italian Cinema Gender and Genre

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

Family Don’t End with Blood Cast and Fans on How Supernatural Has Changed Lives — Lynn S. Zubernis

Family Don’t End with Blood Cast and Fans on How Supernatural Has Changed Lives

Lynn S. Zubernis

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

Television Mockumentary Reflexivity, Satire and a Call to Play — Craig Hight

Television Mockumentary Reflexivity, Satire and a Call to Play

Themes: Television • History & Criticism • Performing Arts

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Television, History & Criticism, Performing Arts — the same threads that run through Dark Shadows by Harry M. Benshoff. Among the authors featured: Caroline Bainbridge, Michelle Ricci, Sonia M. Livingstone, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, and others.

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