The team behind Sherlock is bringing us a bloody, dark Dracula adaptation

Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the folks behind the megasuccessful Sherlock, are adapting another classic story for the small screen: Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Good news: The folks behind Sherlock will be back on our TVs very soon! Bad news: It’s not going to be with a new season of Sherlock.

If we’re honest, it’s not clear that we’ll ever see another season of the global mystery smash that made instant celebrities out of stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as it is. Or if we do, it’ll likely be a long time from now. But that’s okay – for a variety of reasons, honestly – and it’s given creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss time to work on adapting another classic tale: Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Unlike Sherlock, however, this take on the famous vampire will strictly be a period piece. (Which is something of a relief given that it feels as though we’ve had quite a glut of modern day vampire stories in recent years.) It will, however, star a relative unknown – to non-Danish audiences anyway – in the dishy Claes Bang and, if the first teaser is anything to go by, a whole lot of blood and weirdness.

This clip is only 45 seconds long, but it manages to cram in a truly ridiculous amount of blood and general creepiness, from body horror to what appears to be murderous nuns. Yikes.

Watch for yourselves below:

As exciting and scary as this looks – and it really does, particularly given how brief a clip it is – here’s hoping they remember to put some women in the next trailer for this series. Mina Harker is an iconic literary character in her own right, not to mention an important part of this story, so it’d be great to at least see her in the trailers for a hot second.

(Of course, unless this is some sort of Dracula story that’s meant to take place at some point before the events of the Stoker novel? That does seem very possible, particularly as the series is described as being merely “inspired” by the book, rather than a straight retelling of the story.

The series is expected to follow the Sherlock formula in one respect, however. It’ll be three feature length episodes, as its predecessor was. And while there’s no official word on whether or not we can expect it to continue past a single season, well… that’s what they used to say about Sherlock, too.

If this Dracula is a success, I’d bet cash money we’ll see at least several seasons of this series. Just saying. And I’m certainly not mad about that possibility, particularly if the series is more Sherlock season 1 than 4.

Dracula will air on BBC One in the U.K. and stream on Netflix everywhere else. No word yet on an official airdate, but the trailer insists the series is “coming soon”.