Storm Fact — November 3, 2026

Today's Fact

An alley, two puncture wounds, and a sudden fear of sunlight: the night Dracula came courting the weather goddess.

DRACULA BIT STORM AND TRIED TO MAKE HER HIS VAMPIRE BRIDE — AND SHE FOUGHT HIM OFF HERSELF!

The Featured Fact

In Uncanny X-Men #159 (1982), “Night Screams,” by Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz, Storm is attacked in an alley and found with wounds on her neck. Back at the mansion the symptoms assemble themselves like a diagnosis nobody wants to say aloud: dreams she cannot shake, a growing hunger, sensitivity to daylight, and a flinch from Kitty Pryde's Star of David necklace. Her attacker was Dracula, and he had not fed on Ororo at random — he was partway through turning the X-Men's leader into his undead bride.

Dracula returned by night to finish the transformation and carry her off to Belvedere Castle in Central Park. The X-Men tracked them down and fought the vampire and his hounds, while inside, a changing Storm came face to face with Kitty — the girl she had mentored like a daughter. Kitty refused to run and offered herself instead, betting everything on the woman still inside the creature. The bet paid: Storm clawed back control of her own mind, turned on Dracula, and helped drive him off.

Impressed rather than beaten, Dracula let her live — for then. The blood link he had forged did not fully close with that night: in Uncanny X-Men Annual #6 (1982) he summoned her across the Atlantic to steal the book containing the Montesi Formula, the spell that could end all vampires, and it took the X-Men, Dracula's own daughter Lilith, and the treachery of Rachel Van Helsing to destroy him and cut Ororo free of his hold for good.

Why It's Obscure

Before Krakoa, before Arakko, there was a castle in Central Park and a marriage proposal with fangs.

1982

Uncanny X-Men #159 — Claremont and Sienkiewicz stage a full gothic horror issue inside a superhero book, alley ambush to castle rescue.

The symptoms

A checklist in daylight — Neck wounds, nightmares, light sensitivity and dread of a holy symbol: the X-Men diagnose vampirism one clue at a time.

Kitty's gamble

The daughter card — Kitty offers her own life to the transforming Storm — and the love underneath the hunger is what breaks Dracula's grip.

Annual #6

The summons — Dracula's blood link later calls Storm to England to steal the Montesi Formula book; his destruction finally releases her.

Gallery

The original 1982 cover, the Lord of Vampires himself with fangs bared, and Ororo in command of the open sky Dracula tried to take from her.

Uncanny X-Men 159 cover with the X-Men fleeing a giant image of Storm — **Uncanny X-Men #159**The 1982 cover: the X-Men recoil beneath a vast, screaming vision of Storm — the issue that put Dracula's bite on the weather goddess.

Marvel Dracula in cape with fangs bared comic cover art — **The would-be groom**Marvel's Dracula, cape high and fangs out — the suitor who mistook a goddess for a bride he could collect.

Storm summoning lightning comic art — **What he tried to cage**Storm wreathed in her own lightning, eyes lit with weather — the daylight power Dracula's night could not keep.

Sources

Every fact on this page was checked against at least two independent sources before publication.

Bullpen Bulletins

The X-Men's Storm Was Dracula's Mistress — ScreenRantScreenRant's history of Uncanny X-Men #159 and Annual #6: the bite, the bride plan, the Belvedere Castle rescue, and the blood link that followed.
X-Men: Every Time Marvel Turned Storm Into a Vampire — CBRCBR confirms the Earth-616 account: Storm's transformation symptoms in #159, her resistance at Belvedere Castle, and the Annual #6 reckoning with the Montesi Formula.
X-Men Annual Vol 1 1982 — Marvel DatabaseThe Marvel Database's issue record for Annual #6, Blood Feud: Dracula's summons, the Montesi Formula book, and Lilith's role in his destruction.