Brutus Collins

 is a fictional businessman, occultist, and ghost, and an antagonist featured on the original Gothic daytime soap opera Dark Shadows. Played by actor Louis Edmonds, he was introduced as a ghost in episode 1225.

Biography
Brutus Collins was a middle-aged businessman and occultist who lived in Collinsport, Maine in the late 17th century. He entered into a partnership with James Forsythe and formed the Collins-Forsythe Trading Company. Brutus, being an unscrupulous individual, began embezzling money from the company. When James found out, he accused him of stealing, and threatened to expose Brutus' crimes once he collected an incriminating ledger.

James was not the only injured party in this partnership however. While Brutus may have been stealing money from James' pockets, James was stealing the amorous attention of Brutus' young wife, Amanda.

When Brutus caught James stealing the ledger from a secret room at Collinwood, he murdered him. He then used his knowledge of the occult to place a curse on James, so that his spirit would live on - never finding peace. Afterward, he murdered Amanda and placed a similar curse upon her.

Brutus' sister, Constance, learned what he had done and turned against him. Brutus killed her as well, then placed a curse of madness upon the entire Collins family line - a curse that could only be broken if one member of the family risked their own sanity by spending an entire evening in the secret room. Brutus himself died shortly thereafter.

Notes & Trivia



 * Brutus Collins is unique to the continuity of the parallel time. He has no direct counterpart in the mainstream timeline.

Appearances

 * Dark Shadows: 1225
 * Dark Shadows: 1231
 * Dark Shadows: 1236
 * Dark Shadows: 1239
 * Dark Shadows: 1245