Title: Dark shadows
First published: 1966
Description: From Goodreads. Despite warnings from the townspeople, Victoria Winters accepts the offer to come to the strange Collins House as governess.  For some curious reason she feels the secret of her past may be uncovered in the bleak manor high on Widows Hill. From the moment she arrives, Victoria becomes the target of someone in the house determined to destroy her. As the wind moans and rain lashes around the isolated Collins House,Victoria,without friends in the manor,feels death close in on her, a choking frightening death.
Subjects: Original Dark Shadows tv series. Book #1
People: Barnabas Collins.  Collinwood