We see a lot of pastiches and homages to the various supporting characters in Dracula and their imagined descendants.1 Except for one: Quincy Morris.
Which is kind of odd, seeing as Quincy delivers one of the killing blows to the Count, the one to the heart, with his Bowie knife.
But wait – aren’t vampires immune to mundane weapons?
Well, yes, of course. But who says Quincy’s knife was mundane?
What if it was, in fact, the fabled knife of James Bowie himself, supposedly lost after the siege of the Alamo?
If it was, in fact, the legendary Iron Mistress, then it was made of literal star-stuff, meteoric iron that came from the fathomless depths of outer space. Or perhaps beyond.
What better to slay an otherworldly monster than an otherworldly weapon?
Sadly, Quincy dies from wounds sustained in the fight against the vampire, and nothing more is said, in the story, about the knife.
But we can speculate that, as was often customary in such circumstances, particularly for a minor hero, Quincy’s possessions were returned to his family in Texas. There, perhaps, the knife occupied an honored place on a wall of similar memories, and waited, down through the generations, before being sold off like so much clutter, in an estate sale.
Until some hapless nebbish buys it at a yard sale and (through events and circumstances yet to be written) finds that it is so much more than a mere priceless antique.
1 As far as we know from the text, Quincy had no children. However, in this context, “descendants” are considered to be anyone in his familial bloodline.