Pagan X
My inner six-year old is right next to you kicking on the floor and screaming.
According to Place, Dan Curtis produced the Jack Palance dramatazation of Dracula, and did indeed add Dracula seeking his lost love as a plot element from Curtis' experience with that being a successful plot element in Dark Shadows.
Need to look up the screenplay writers for Dark Shadows: they deserve the credit for that addition to the Dracula Myth as we now tell it.
According to Place, Dan Curtis produced the Jack Palance dramatazation of Dracula, and did indeed add Dracula seeking his lost love as a plot element from Curtis' experience with that being a successful plot element in Dark Shadows.
Need to look up the screenplay writers for Dark Shadows: they deserve the credit for that addition to the Dracula Myth as we now tell it.