She read Maitland's Dark Ages, `` which I enjoyed very much '' ; ;

In the Dark Ages spiders were commonly considered to be a source of contamination of food and water.

The place-name itself is Pictish, implying an origin in the Dark Ages: aber ' confluence '.

Recent additions include 1000 AD ( Cthulhu: Dark Ages ), 23rd Century ( Cthulhu Rising ) and Roman times ( Cthulhu Invictus ).

The range of times and places in which the horrors of the Mythos can be encountered was also expanded in late 2005 onwards with the addition of Cthulhu Dark Ages by Stéphane Gesbert, which gives a framework for playing games set in eleventh-century Europe, Secrets of Japan by Michael Dziesinski for gaming in modern day Japan, and Secrets of Kenya by David Conyers for gaming in interwar period Africa.

* Dark Ages ( historiography )

Like many other Greek mathematical treatises, Diophantus was forgotten in Western Europe during the so-called Dark Ages, since the study of ancient Greek had greatly declined.

Although there were earlier works of similar nature, by Marcus Terentius Varro for example, Pliny's was the only one to survive the Dark Ages.

This was the Age of Enlightenment when writers valued reason and the Middle Ages were viewed as the " Dark Ages ".

Enlightenment authors generally mocked and ridiculed anything from the " Dark Ages " including feudalism, projecting its negative characteristics on the current French monarchy as a means of political gain.

* Get of Fenris, a werewolf tribe in the roleplaying game Dark Ages: Werewolf

As a result this period has been called the " Dark Ages ".

The existence of such early protogalaxies suggests that they must have grown in the so-called " Dark Ages ".

The constitution of the Galatian state is described by Strabo and bare striking resemblance to later Germanic kingdoms and early feudalism during the Dark Ages.

The period known as classical antiquity began with the rise of the city-states of Ancient Greece out of the Greek Dark Ages.

The collapse of the Western Roman Empire did not lead to the same wholesale destruction of Western classical society as happened in areas like Roman Britain, Gaul and Germania Inferior during the Dark Ages, although the institutions, infrastructure and economy did suffer considerable degradation.

Ancient Greece in the eighth through fourth centuries BC, between the Greek Dark Ages and the Hellenistic period, is referred to as Hellenic Greece.

During the period of time known as the Dark Ages ( 5th – 15th century ), Arabic scholars and scientists progressed science and technology while Europe was in cultural decline and poverty.

A view of the remains of the Cluny Abbey | Abbey of Cluny, a Rule of St. Benedict | Benedictine monastery, was the centre of monastic life revival in the Middle Ages and marked an important step in the cultural rebirth following the Early Middle Ages | Dark Ages.

Increasingly, the Iron Age in Europe is being seen as a part of the Bronze Age collapse in the ancient Near East, in ancient India ( with the post-Rigvedic Vedic civilization ), ancient Iran, and ancient Greece ( with the Greek Dark Ages ).

* The destruction of the sphinx nose, the white washing of rulers of Europe during the Dark Ages, the depiction of Christ during the renaissance.

Iona also radiated out towards the Europe of the Dark Ages, not to mention Pagan England at Lindisfarne.

Some horror shows use common horror tropes such as vampires with more conventional dramatic forms like the heroic myth ( for example Buffy the Vampire Slayer ) or even gothic romance ( Dark Shadows ).

( For a time, this was the most of any American-produced television series except for Star Trek and Dark Shadows with its 30 or so novels published between 1966 and 1971, though there have now been more original novels published based upon Alias and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

This archetype has been widely exemplified, notably by such characters as Countess Zaleska in the 1936 film Dracula's Daughter, Barnabas Collins in the TV soap opera Dark Shadows, Mick St. John in the TV show Moonlight, Louis de Pointe du Lac in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Kain in the Legacy Of Kain video games, Marvel Comics character Morbius, the Living Vampire, Nick Knight in the TV series Forever Knight, Angel from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, and Bill Compton in Charlaine Harris ' The Southern Vampire Mysteries.

* Vampire: The Masquerade ( including the spinoffs Vampire: The Dark Ages / Dark Ages: Vampire and Victorian Age: Vampire )

* The Long Night ( based on Vampire: The Dark Ages )

* Faith and Fire ( based on Dark Ages: Vampire )

Willow transitions into Dark Willow in " Villains ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer ) | Villains ", with Tara's blood splattered on her neck

Richards is best known as the penciller of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer monthly series from Dark Horse Comics, as well as the artist on the Buffy limited series, Haunted.

This promotional poster for Brian Lynch's IDW Spike series was drawn by artist Franco Urru in response to the Twilight ( Buffy comic )# Spoiler leak | spoiler leak controversy for the Dark Horse Comics series Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight.

In the explicitly-canonical Whedon stories of 2007, Spike and Angel first appear in a joint cameo in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( Dark Horse ) as part of Buffy's sexual fantasies.

* The Wild Hunt appears frequently in modern fantasy fiction, as in Alan Garner ( in The Moon of Gomrath ), Peter Beagle ( in Tamsin ), Penelope Lively in The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy, Uladzimir Karatkievich ( in The Wild Hunt of King Stakh ), Susan Cooper in The Dark is Rising, Guy Gavriel Kay's trilogy The Fionavar Tapestry, Raymond E. Feist's ' Faerie Tale ', Laurell K. Hamilton's Merry Gentry series, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings ( as the Dead Men of Dunharrow ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( Novel Child of the Hunt ), Andrzej Sapkowski's Geralt of Rivia cicle and Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, among many others.

Comic books and graphic novels which feature vampires include Vampirella ( Warren Publishing, 1969 ), Morbius, the Living Vampire ( Marvel, 1971 ), Tomb of Dracula ( Marvel Comics, 1972 ), Blade ( Marvel, 1973 ), I ... Vampire ( DC Comics, 1981 ), Hellsing ( Shonen Gahosha, 1997 ), 30 Days of Night ( IDW Publishing, 2002 ), Chibi Vampire ( Monthly Dragon Age, 2003 ), Rosario + Vampire ( Monthly Shōnen Jump 2004 ), Vampire Knight ( LaLa, 2005 ), Blood Alone ( MediaWorks, 2005 ), Dracula vs. King Arthur ( Silent Devil Productions, 2005 ), Dance in the Vampire Bund ( Media Factory, 2006 ), Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures ( Dabel Brothers Productions / Marvel Comics, 2007 ), Half Dead ( Dabel Brothers Productions / Marvel Comics, 2007 ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight ( Dark Horse Comics, 2007 ), Nosferatu ( Viper Comics, 2010 ), and Twilight: The Graphic Novel ( 2010 ).

Deathkings of the Dark Citadel is the official expansion pack that was released for Hexen in 1996.

* " Perilous Gateways: Dark Elf Portals " at the official Forgotten Realms website.

* The Dark Tower official website ( requires Macromedia Flash 6 )

* The Dark Tower official website ( requires Macromedia Flash 6 )

Dark green was selected as the official school color along with white.

ET with the launch of a primetime block called SNICK, which was home to shows such as Are You Afraid of the Dark ?, Clarissa Explains It All, Roundhouse, All That, The Amanda Show and Kenan & Kel ; in 2004, the block was reformatted as the Saturday edition of TEENick ( which originally debuted on Sunday evenings in 2000 ), and the Saturday night block continues today without an official block name ( though A Night of Premieres is occasionally used when two or more programs feature new episodes on that night ); the TEENick branding, with its spelling altered to TeenNick, has since been used on the Nickelodeon sister channel previously known as The N. In June 1993, Nickelodeon resumed its magazine brand, Nickelodeon Magazine.

Municipalities of Finland with Swedish as an official language in blue: White: unilingually Finnish municipalities Light blue: bilingual municipalities with a Finnish majority Bright blue: bilingual municipalities with a Swedish majority Dark blue: unilingually ( 92-94 %) Swedish municipalities More than 17, 000 Swedish-speaking Finns live in officially monolingual Finnish municipalities, and are thus not represented on the map.

* Article about the miniseries from Dark Horse Comics ' official website

Going gold with their first official American release Dark Light.

Barbicane appears in Kevin J. Anderson's novel Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius as an Ottoman official whose chief rival, Robur, designs a number of innovative weapons to counteract him, including an attempt to launch a three-man mission to the Moon.

The official name for this color was DGLE ( Dark Green Locomotive Enamel ).

* Dark Horse ( 1972 ), about a minor official chosen to replace a Presidential candidate who died shortly before the election.

The Games Workshop official history of the Dark Eldar has always placed Asdrubael Vect as the supreme overlord of Commorragh and in the 2010 Codex release provided more detail as to his rise to power.

* The Dark Tower official website ( requires Macromedia Flash 6 )

Five tracks from the game ( Clara's Theme, De Loco ’ s Theme, Dark Rift music, Blue Moon Crystal tune, and the post-destruction Nasr theme ) are omitted from the official soundtrack release.

Digital Hero is the official online magazine for Hero Games, supporting its Hero System games including Champions, Fantasy Hero, Star Hero, Dark Champions, and others.

Due to the growing threat of the Amtrak Federation, some Iron Masters believe that without embracing the Dark Light their nation stands little chance against the Federation's superior technology and will be destroyed, but official policy is to maintain the edict.

The Next Men saw their official debut in a four-part storyline in Dark Horse Presents # 54-57 ( later reprinted, in color, as John Byrne's Next Men # 0 ).

* Dark Moor official website

* The Dark Tower official website ( requires Macromedia Flash 6 )

Official Termination of contract papers had already been delivered to Necropolis Records, putting an official end of Dark Funeral's tenure with said record label.

* Dark Funeral official homepage

The book, entitled The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole, was announced on Stephen King's official site on March 10, 2011 and was published on April 24, 2012.

* Dark Wraith of Shannara official website