Wallachia in the 15th century was an unstable region with many pretenders to the throne, local feuds and external threats ...

Vlad III Dracula, the brutal warlord and inspiration for Bram Stoker’s genre-defining vampire, has long held a reputation as ...

"The basic image of Stoker is that of a respectable Anglo-Irish gentleman who was very hard working and devoted to his boss," Skal said. "It's a stuffy cardboard cutout. It's not a person. "He was a ...

Several years ago, I read the book “Dracula” for the first time, expecting that Bram Stoker’s 19th century fable of blood, lust and the undead would be a quaint echo of Dracula’s many screen ...