Wallachia in the 15th century was an unstable region with many pretenders to the throne, local feuds and external threats from the ever-expanding Ottoman Empire and the mighty Hungarian Kingdom. Among ...

In 2015 the Guinness Book of Records named Count Dracula as the most adapted literary figure with, at that time, over 500 productions making use of Bram Stoker’s iconic character. Underneath the cloak ...

Legends of vampires go back centuries, but few names have cast more terror into the human heart than Dracula. However, the fictional character, created by author Bram ...

In 1476, the head of Vlad the Impaler was delivered to Mehmed the Conqueror, marking what should have been the end of one of Europe’s bloodiest rulers. But death wasn’t the end — it was the beginning ...

Bram Stoker's novel Dracula introduced the world to perhaps the most iconic horror villain of all time. However, the book doesn't reveal a great deal about Vlad Dracula's past or the centuries of ...

Count Dracula wasn't only a fictional character created by Bram Stoker. The character was based on a real-life man named Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, or Vlad the Impaler. And history shows he was ...

It’s common to see conservative writers compare today’s political and cultural situation to that of the late Roman Republic. It was a time of transition between a small, vigorous republic to a large, ...