 Selznick hired John L. Balderston , who had previously worked on the 1931 Dracula and Frankenstein , to write the screenplay . Balderston 's screenplay involved tying up loose ends from the original film . In it , Von Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy the three vampire brides seen in Dracula but overlooks a fourth tomb concealing Dracula 's daughter . She follows him back to London and operates under the name " Countess Szekelsky " . She attacks a young aristocrat and Von Helsing and the aristocrat 's fiancée track her back to Transylvania and destroy her . The script included scenes that implied that Dracula 's daughter enjoyed torturing her male victims and that while under her control the men liked it too . Also included were shots of the Countess 's chambers being stocked with whips and straps , which she would never use on @-@ screen but whose uses the audience could imagine . Regardless of any objections that the Production Code Administration ( PCA ) would have raised to many aspects of the scenario , Balderston 's script could never have been filmed because Selznick 's contract with Stoker expressly barred him from using any Bram Stoker characters that did not appear in " Dracula 's Guest " . Selznick re @-@ sold the rights to " Dracula 's Guest " to Universal in September 1935 for $ 12 @,@ 500 , which included the rights to Balderston 's scenario . Horror film scholar David J. Skal theorizes that this was Selznick 's actual motivation in buying the rights in the first place , to profit from Universal 's desire for a sequel by tying up the only obvious source material . 
