Bram Stoker never visited Vlad’s homeland but was known to have come across Wilkinson’s book in 1890. Afterward, he wrote the following: “Voivode (Dracula): Dracula in Wallachian language ...

Lifted from the pages of Bram Stoker’s classic novel, ... Vlad II was given the new surname Dracul. In 1442, Vlad II was called to a meeting with the Ottoman Sultan Murad II, ...

Born in Dublin, Abraham Stoker, or ‘Bram’ as he’s popularly known, ... Vlad the Impaler (c.1428-1476), ruler of Wallachia and son of Vlad Dracul, and hails from Transylvania.

The inspiration behind Bram Stoker's iconic Gothic novel was an actual 15th-century ruler named Vlad III Dracula, whose ...

Vlad the Impaler was said to have been the original inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula (Image: Getty Images) Under Vlad's orders, enemies were said to have been burned alive, skinned, roasted ...

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 ...

Stoker only took the name of “Dracula” from Vlad Dracul III, the original caped crusader. But the book’s titular inspiration got that name when The Holy Roman Empire named him to the ...

Even back in 1992, Coppola was under pressure to create these effects with computer assistance. Coming out just a year before Jurassic Park digitally brought dinosaurs back to life, Bram Stoker’s ...

Vlad the Impaler was said to have been the original inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula (Getty Images) Show more Under Vlad's orders, enemies were said to have been burned alive, skinned ...