Also known as Vlad III, Vlad Dracula (son of the Dragon), and—most famously—Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Tepes in Romanian), he was a brutal, sadistic leader famous for torturing his foes.

A new Dracula movie is on the way from director Luc Besson, and the first trailer has just been released.

When most people think about Transylvania it conjures the image of Dracula and the world dreamed up in Bram Stoker’s 1897 ...

Maybe it's time to explore that past. The story of the real Dracula begins in Wallachia, present-day southern Romania, where ...

But to bring the Romanian angle home, wall panels and decor tell the tale of the man who inspired Count Dracula: 15th-century Transilvanian nobleman Vlad Tepes, called “The Impaler” after his ...

THE "true" home of Dracula where bloodthirsty Vlad the Impaler lived is set to open to the public. Until five years ago, Poienari Castle in the city of Curtea de Arge, Romania, had been left ...

Dinu claims to lead a group calling itself the Vlad The Impaler Command, named after the 15th century Transylvanian nobleman who was the inspiration for Dracula. In Romania he is often associated ...

But now it seems that Vlad the Impaler ... It was really a very magical atmosphere. Count Dracula blessed his release from the Romanian archive." The Zilbersteins were admittedly less interested ...

The eponymous villain of Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel Dracula was partly inspired by a real historical person: Vlad III, a 15th-century prince of Wallachia (now southern Romania), known by the ...

According to Light, Romanian authorities did not actively encourage the narrative that the castle had a strong connection to either Vlad the Impaler or Stoker's Dracula. However, the claim quickly ...