William Faulkner’s unmade vampire film

Thanks to Bruce Baugh for this “is this real life...?” moment:

William Faulkner adapted a vampire novel called Dreadful Hollow for Howard Hawks and Warner Bros. passed on it.

That, right there, is a moment where horror film history could have taken a different turn. Hawks pretty much stayed out of SF/F/H apart from making The Thing From Another World, and Faulkner once had a ghost of sorts in A Fable but that was about it, and the WB didn’t have much of a go at horror during the Universal Monster era either...