Francis Ford Coppola is making his first trip back to San Diego's Comic-Con convention since 1991 (when he went for Dracula) to promote his current project, the gothic indie Twixt.

Elle Fanning Fanning and Francis Ford Coppola in Twixt

Twixt follows a hack horror novelist (Val Kilmer) as ghostly visions in a bizarre small town lead him to explore the murder of a young girl (Super 8's Elle Fanning).

Francis Ford Coppola describes the story as inspired by the eerie writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

No release date has been set.