In 2015 the Guinness Book of Records named Count Dracula as the most adapted literary figure with, at that time, over 500 productions making use of Bram Stoker’s iconic character. Underneath the cloak ...

Legends of vampires go back centuries, but few names have cast more terror into the human heart than Dracula. However, the fictional character, created by author Bram ...

Count Dracula might be a fictional character who makes the blood curdle on Halloween, but his historical namesake is not. Vlad III, known in his heyday as Dracula or Drăculea, in old Romanian was a ...

Vlad III, known as Vlad the Impaler, was a 15th century prince and military leader who was so terrifying, he's thought to have inspired the creation of the literary vampire, Count Dracula. Now, a ...

Count Dracula is synonymous with Halloween. The world's most famous bloodsucker and legendary vampire has inspired more fear than almost any other supernatural villain in modern history, as well as ...

Vlad the Impaler, also known as Count Vlad Drăculea, was not only a blood-thirsty and ruthless leader, but he also suffered from a rare condition that caused him to cry tears of blood, a new study ...

Take away the tourists in Transylvania and you could be back in the Middle Ages with historic castles, enchanting forests and ...

There are only a handful of characters as well-known as well as Dracula. There are, perhaps, only a handful of characters throughout history known as well as Count Dracula. "Dracula is the most ...

Tourists flock to Bran Castle, known locally as "Dracula's castle," though it has little to do with the 15th-century prince Vlad Tepes, who inspired the wildly popular vampire story. Robert Wallis A ...

Francis Ford Coppola's take on Bram Stoker lets viewers sink their teeth into a beautiful, deadly world As a massive horror ...

Small cannonballs from culverins (left) found by archaeologists in the 15th- to 16th-century layer at the Zishtova Fortress in Bulgaria's Svishtov Svishtov Municipality No, this isn’t the Onion.

The prospect of a tourist bonanza from a Dracula theme park in Transylvania excites some Romanians, but opponents see only red Rudolph Chelminski Tourists flock to Bran Castle, known locally as ...