“All stories are true — they just forgot they shared the same world.”
🌑 PHASE I — THE WORLD OF SHADOWS (The Gothic Foundations)
Tone: Fog, gaslight, obsession. 19th-century Europe on the edge of modernity.
Theme: Science and sin blur; immortality tempts mortals.
🎞️ 1. Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus (Year 1)
Setting: 1820s Geneva & Arctic wastes
Plot: The Monster, abandoned and self-educated, seeks his creator again — but finds an underground cabal of alchemists harvesting corpses for their own “new Adam.”
End-Credit Scene: Captain Nemo recovers the Monster’s body adrift in ice.
🎞️ 2. Dracula: Lord of the Night (Year 2)
Setting: 1890s Transylvania → London
Plot: A faithful yet more political retelling — Dracula’s invasion of England is as much economic as supernatural.
Tone: The Godfather meets The Exorcist.
End-Credit Scene: A London newspaper shows a headline: “Consulting Detective Defeats Vampire Count.” Holmes looks at the camera.
🎞️ 3. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of London (Year 3)
Setting: 1890s London
Plot: Holmes investigates murders tied to a serum stolen from Dr. Jekyll’s estate.
Cameo: Dorian Gray attending an elite gentlemen’s club linked to the crimes.
End-Credit Scene: Holmes and Van Helsing meet — “We’re forming a Society.”
🎞️ 4. The Strange Case of Jekyll & Hyde (Year 3)
Setting: London’s medical underworld
Plot: Jekyll’s experiments are revealed as the first attempt at immortality — funded by mysterious “foreign patrons.”
End-Credit Scene: A shadowed figure with fangs reads Jekyll’s notes — Dracula’s agents are building an army.
🎞️ 5. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Genesis (Year 4)
Setting: 1899
Plot: Holmes, Van Helsing, Nemo, Mina Harker, and Frankenstein’s Monster form the League to stop a vampiric coup across Europe.
Climax: Dracula is defeated but not destroyed; Nemo’s Nautilus vanishes at sea.
End-Credit Scene: In an asylum, a new inmate scribbles “Cthulhu” on the walls.
🌌 PHASE II — THE AGE OF STEAM AND MASKS (The Pulp Renaissance)
Tone: Adventure, early modernism, and secret wars.
Theme: Humanity’s reach into the unknown — both cosmic and moral.
🎞️ 6. The War of the Worlds (Year 5)
Setting: 1901, global
Plot: Martians return; humanity barely survives thanks to Nemo’s rediscovered Nautilus and the Monster’s heroism.
End-Credit Scene: Tarzan observes a fallen Martian craft in the Congo.
🎞️ 7. Tarzan of the Lost Empire (Year 6)
Setting: Africa & Atlantis ruins
Plot: Tarzan defends a hidden civilization using ancient alien tech — hinting at a link between Martians and Earth’s lost continents.
End-Credit Scene: An aged Allan Quatermain recruits Tarzan for “The New League.”
🎞️ 8. The Shadow: City of Fear (Year 6)
Setting: 1930s New York
Plot: The Shadow battles remnants of Dracula’s cult trying to resurrect their master using Martian biotech.
Cameo: Dorian Gray in America, still ageless.
End-Credit Scene: A meteor crashes into the Pacific — signal received by someone in an undersea fortress.
🎞️ 9. Captain Nemo: The Last Voyage (Year 7)
Setting: Pacific Ocean, 1935
Plot: The aging Nemo investigates the meteor — it’s a shard of a sleeping god’s prison (Lovecraft’s mythos).
Climax: Nemo sacrifices the Nautilus to seal it, but awakens the dreams of Cthulhu.
End-Credit Scene: Flash Gordon sees an aurora over the night sky: “Something’s coming through.”
🎞️ 10. The League: The Dreaming War (Year 8 — Phase Finale)
Setting: 1940s global conflict
Plot: The New League (Tarzan, Shadow, Gray, Quatermain, and Frankenstein’s Monster) battles a cult merging vampirism, alien tech, and eldritch power.
Cameo: A young Lovecraft researching nightmares in Arkham.
Climax: The League halts the apocalypse — but rifts remain between worlds.
End-Credit Scene: In deep space, John Carter of Mars awakens.
💀 PHASE III — THE MYTHIC RETURN (The Cosmic Era)
Tone: Cosmic horror meets modern heroism.
Theme: Humanity confronts gods, madness, and its own mythic legacy.
🎞️ 11. John Carter: The Red Dawn
Introduces the Martian empire; connects Wells’ invaders to Barsoom’s civil war.
🎞️ 12. Flash Gordon: Worlds Collide
Bridges Carter’s Martian mythos and Earth’s awakening gods.
🎞️ 13. Dorian Gray: Eternal City
Dorian rules a megacorporation in modern London — secretly working to resurrect Dracula.
🎞️ 14. Holmes: The Rational Order
Descendants of Holmes and Van Helsing lead a clandestine global defense network.
🎞️ 15. The League: Gods and Monsters (Phase Finale)
Cthulhu rises. Dracula and Dorian ally with cosmic forces. The descendants of every major hero unite.
The Nautilus returns from the abyss, piloted by the Monster — now mythic, luminous.
Humanity prevails through reason, courage, and love — but at a cost.
End-Credit Scene: The shattered pieces of the Necronomicon whisper, “All stories are true… again.”
🕸️ Future Spin-Offs & Series Concepts
Penny Dreadfuls (Series): Standalone horror anthologies (e.g., Carmilla, Phantom, Sleepy Hollow).
Chronicles of the Nautilus (Animated): Steampunk sea adventures bridging eras.
The Dreaming City (Modern Noir): Where myths, immortals, and detectives coexist.
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