1 vlad dracula biography books

Dracula just might be the most famous monster ever created. Bram Stoker&#;s story has never been out of print since its first publication in Count Dracula is a big draw for tourists to Romania in general and Bran Castle in Transylvania in particular. The sinister vampire has been portrayed in countless films and television series, even inspiring several children&#;s TV characters from the vegetarian Count Duckula to Count von Count on Sesame Street.

Bram Stoker&#;s Dracula

But where did Stoker get his inspiration? Bram Stoker, an Irish writer living in London who had never visited Eastern Europe, was fascinated by the legends around Vlad III of Transylvania.

Vlad III was a fearsome military commander. You might know him better by the epithet Vlad the Impaler. Back in the medieval era stories spread by word of mouth so it&#;s not too hard to imagine how the man whose favorite method of execution involved a spike being inserted somewhere you THE IMPALER: A BIOGRAPHY OF VLAD III DRACULA - FYSI