Shadows loom…reaching…ravenous…growing
Jagged peaks paint the darkening sky
Sunlight weak, fading
The land waits…Hushed

The night…it approaches
Air thick with dread, village gripped in fear

An old woman prays
Villagers gather
You must stay!
You can't go on!
It is the Night of Evil!

A cross is passed
Renfield resumes his journey

Castle Dracula towers eerily above the Carpathians
Stygian stronghold…centuries old…timeless
Its long shadow reaches far, blackening all that it touches

Catacombs, deep, wet, caliginous

A King arises from his slumber
The night holds its breath
Unclean creatures move about, their time has come

Ghastly moonlight, dripping fog, midnight…Borgo Pass
An innocent taken

Courtyard, shadowed
A great door opens…screaming

Threshold crossed
Ruins…servile creatures….

 “I am Dracula
I bid you welcome”

Wolves sing

“Children of the Night
What music they make”

 The Count’s eyes, fathomless, powerful…immortal
A pin prick, blood drawn, red and hot
Unnatural hunger rages, the creature strikes
The cross drops…a reprieve…for now

Tainted wine…open window, gloom, vapor…giant bat
Lifeless brides approach, filthy, fetid, impious
Their master comes

Servant secured

Vesta, lurches on an angry sea
Crew killed
Whitby Harbour
Maniacal laughter
Renfield…insane…vile hunger
Flies, spiders, lives

London
Deathless evil walks free
Killing…feeding

Mina
Light in the dark
Draws in the undead
His blood flows in her veins

Scholar?
Scientist?
Van Helsing
Vampires exist
No such thing…madness

Carfax Abbey…sunrise
“Master, I am loyal.”
“No Master, not with blood on my hands.”
Death takes Renfield

Vampire hunters
Dracula flees
Mina missing

Too late, the coffin is found
The stake driven
The King destroyed