How did a notoriously cruel medieval warlord with a gift for impaling his victims on wooden stakes inspire the creation of ...

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.

Vlad Tepes, Vlad the Impaler, the real life dracula, is surrounded by folklore, mystery, and myth. Even during his time the stories about his famed impalings traveled all around Europe.

Vlad the Impaler's Fortress in Poenari (Arges County) was reopened for visits on Monday, after extensive conservation and restoration work. The fortress, located on the administrative territory of ...

A lawyer from a shadowy group named after Vlad the Impaler met with the deputy Russian military attache at a Bucharest restaurant to plot the overthrow of the Romanian state, according to ...

The group, named “Vlad the Impaler Command” after Romania’s medieval ruler who served as inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, included a 101-year-old retired general named Radu Theodoru ...

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 ...

Messmer’s Spear, also known as the Spear of the Impaler, is an incredibly strong and broken weapon in Shadow of the Erdtree. Thanks to the high damage capabilities from Elden Ring’s DLC ...

Messmer the Impaler, whom we’ve heard plenty about ... specifically the obscene range and AoE his spear has. When you get him half HP, he will transform and enter his second phase, completely ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Romania’s ultranationalist AUR party has few foreign role models — it prefers to glorify local ...