Elizabeth Collins was the eldest child of the wealthy Collins family of Collinsport, Maine. Over the objections of her father, Jamison, and younger brother, Roger, she married Paul Stoddard and together they had a daughter Carolyn.One night in 1949, she caught Paul in the act of stealing a large part of her inheritance from her father and trying to leave town. She hit Paul over the head with a fire poker and buried him in the basement with the help of Paul's best friend, Jason McGuire. The next day she fired all the servants and hired the floor sweeper from her cannery to work as a handyman. She did not leave her home, Collinwood, for 18 years, until Jason McGuire returned and tried to blackmail her into marriage. Instead, she confessed to the crime in her wedding gown and lead the police to the burial site, only to find out that Paul was not killed and he and Jason concocted a plan to fool Elizabeth.Elizabeth ran the family home where she lived with Carolyn, Roger, and Roger's son, David. She was generally unaware of the fantastic nature of many members of the household, including the vampire next door (an ancestor named Barnabas), Roger's two wives - an undead Phoenix and the witch who was married to Barnabas until he murdered her in 1795, a werewolf (Cousin Quentin), and her son-in-law who was the leader of a race of undead demons from outer space. Show less «