However, the castle never belonged to the real Dracula, who is commonly known as Vlad the Impaler, a 15th-century Wallachian prince. At most, according to Light, ...

Dracula was real, but the location of his remains is one of history's persistent mysteries. According to historical accounts, ...

Stoker used elements of Vlad's real story for the title character of his 1897 novel "Dracula." The book has since inspired countless horror movies, television shows and other bloodcurdling tales.

But Stoker’s “Dracula” was actually based on a real-life, blood-thirsty monster, even more frightening than the fictional Dracula, a man known as Vlad the Impaler.

The real-life Dracula cried tears of BLOOD: Experts reveal how Vlad the Impaler – the inspiration for the fictional vampire – suffered from a rare condition that caused bloody tears.

Real-life 'Dracula' who bathed in victims' blood was world's worst female serial killer. Elizabeth 'Countess Blood' Bathory is believed to have murdered 650 young female victims over 20 years ...

King Charles related to 'real Dracula' Vlad the Impaler who butchered enemies with stake. The new monarch's ancestry can be traced back to Romania's notoriously fearsome ruler, ...

Much like Dracula himself, the character is seemingly immortal. ... The Real-Life Lore Behind Dracula in History. Cassidy Ward. Fri, August 11, 2023 at 3:02 PM UTC. 6 min read.

There are completely legal marriages that aren’t nearly as strong as the possibly, potentially real one Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves entered into while filming Dracula.Ever since a real ...

Confined by the pandemic to his home in Lawrence, Kan., in the summer of 2020, Matt Kirkland pulled an old paperback of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” from his bookshelf and decided to reread it.