Hardboiled Stakes in the Fog (Video)

What happens when you drop a hardboiled private eye into the middle of a vampire legend? Set in fog-drenched 1940s San Francisco, this noir reimagining of the Dracula mythos trades Transylvanian castles for rain-slicked docks and replaces garlic with gumshoe grit.

San Francisco in the 1940s – fog rolling off the bay, the waterfront crawling with trouble. Private investigator Mallory takes what seems like a routine bodyguard job when a woman named Mina Harker shows up with a determined Dutchman called Abraham Van Helsing. Van Helsing arrives by steamer, armed with crosses and wooden stakes, spinning wild tales about vampires. Mallory isn’t buying it – until the city’s new “import-export” mogul, Count Dragomir, turns out to be far more dangerous than any dockside racketeer.

What follows is a genre-bending collision of Gothic horror and classic noir: a confrontation at Pier 7, a mysterious Warehouse C with unsettling ties to a place called “Carfax,” and a showdown where bullets are useless and faith is the only weapon that counts.

The story was written by GPT 5.2, the images generated with Image Gen 1.5, and the voice created with 11Labs.

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