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  2. Dark Shadows (film) - Wikipedia

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    Dark Shadows is a 2012 gothic dark fantasy film [3] based on the gothic television soap opera of the same name.Directed by Tim Burton, the film stars Johnny Depp alongside Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz, Helena Bonham Carter, and Bella Heathcote in a dual role. [4]

  3. Umbra, penumbra and antumbra - Wikipedia

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    The dark area above the center of the solar disk is a sunspot. The antumbra (from the Latin ante "before" and umbra "shadow") is the region from which the occluding body appears entirely within the disc of the light source.

  4. Fear of the dark - Wikipedia

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    Artistic depiction of a child afraid of the dark and frightened by their shadow. (Linocut by the artist Ethel Spowers (1927).) Fear of the dark is a common fear or phobia among toddlers, children and, to a varying degree, adults. A fear of the dark does not always concern darkness itself; it can also be a fear of possible or imagined dangers ...

  5. List of night deities - Wikipedia

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    Lords of the Night, a group of nine gods, each of whom ruled over a particular night; Itzpapalotl, fearsome skeletal goddess of the stars; Metztli, god or goddess of the moon, night, and farmers

  6. Shadow - Wikipedia

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    A shadow is a dark area on a surface where light from a light source is blocked by an object. In contrast, shade occupies the three-dimensional volume behind an object with light in front of it. The cross section of a shadow is a two- dimensional silhouette , or a reverse projection of the object blocking the light.

  7. Chiaroscuro - Wikipedia

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    The use of dark subjects dramatically lit by a shaft of light from a single constricted and often unseen source, was a compositional device developed by Ugo da Carpi (c. 1455 – c. 1523), Giovanni Baglione (1566–1643), and Caravaggio (1571–1610), the last of whom was crucial in developing the style of tenebrism, where dramatic chiaroscuro ...

  8. Shadow person - Wikipedia

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    A shadow person (also known as a shadow figure or black mass) is the perception of shadow as a living species, humanoid figure, sometimes interpreted as the presence of a spirit or other entity by believers in the paranormal or supernatural.

  9. Dark Shadows - Wikipedia

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    Dark Shadows is an American gothic soap opera that aired weekdays on the ABC television network from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show depicted the lives, loves, trials, and tribulations of the wealthy Collins family of Collinsport , Maine , where a number of supernatural occurrences take place.