Black Vampire Hunter Girl Killing Vamps During the late 1890s, WITH QUEERNESS
(This is a rough brainstorm idea so bare with me, I'll be tweaking it in the future)
So I love gothic literature and I just wish that there were more black gothic stories (esp set during and after the gothic time period) but I do kinda get qhy there arent many. So I'm trying to make my own (already working on a reimagining and adaptation of Frankenstein), and I had this idea:
An young formerly enslaved black woman has now been living in England for the soe time (a solid decade at least), after being adopted by a abolotionist English couple in Texas. She ends up being framed for her dear friend's murder, traveling to the countryside where she reunites with her old professor, Van Helsing, becoming his apprentince when he tells her he's been investigating anything supernatural around Europe. They soon end up in Translyvania when children have heen reported as missing, seen in the local village by a few with a strange woman before disappearing, and now a soliciter who traveled there for business with a strange count has been reported as missimg by his fiancee. To make matters worse, her own friend's body went missing while passing through the strsnge place (her family being Eastern European).
Soon, Van Helsing recruites a former student of his, his wife, and the missing woman's suitors to go find the woman and the missing soliciter. She ends up encountering Dracula and his 3 brides, him considering a fourth when he watches the girl investigate on her own from the shadows. He makes her promises of giving her a new sensation of freedom if she exchanges her own life for Jonathan Harkers. She denies but gets thrown to his 3 brides, each hungrier tjan the other, where she recpgmizes one as her dead friend. The vampire whispering much about the black girl's feelings and attempts at seducing her but gets stabbed in the heart.