working title: wicker hollow
among emily call’s tight-knit cohort of grad students, professor andrew abbott reigns supreme— and his sudden disappearance sends them reeling. determined to find him, she and inspector silas oakes trace his steps to wicker hollow, a strange town untouched by modernity, where the rites and rituals that she thought existed only in books flourish in the high heat of spring, watched over by the mysterious siblings in the manor house on the hill.
“nature’s first green is gold; her hardest hue to hold.”
dracula: transylvania is not england; you must adapt to transylvanian customs
jonathan, warding him off with the garlic and crucifix the transylvanian peasants gave him:
dracula: no not like that
Assuming those three women are, in fact, his “Brides” in the traditional sense, we can add “shitty husband” to Dracula’s already extensive rap sheet.
“Mina, if you’re reading this, sorry to mention how sexy the vampire women were, but I think you’ll get it.”