Plenty of real castles could pass for fantasy illustrations, but their stories are far more layered than anything in fiction.

For Ashraf Fagih, Arabic sci-fi isn’t just an imaginative exercise, it’s an instrument for reshaping how we understand time, ...

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 ...

Centuries later, the sinister reputation of Vlad the Impaler took on new life when ... III’s archenemy Sultan Mehmed II had this portrait painted in 1480 by Gentile Bellini, an Italian painter ...

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 supernatural happenings that scare us out of our skin are — like the portrait of Dorian Gray ... be tied to the 15th-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a sinister, supernatural ...

Meanwhile, his limited physicality suggests a man who could’ve been around since the days of Vlad the Impaler. Yet there’s still something ... Skarsgård’s physicality for this monster instantly paints ...

The first “Dracula” volume was subtitled “The Impaler,” while the second edition ... “It’s a complex portrait of what, up until now, have only ever been gruesome pin-up versions ...