The ruthless brutality of Vlad III of Walachia, forged by the 15th-century clash between the Kingdom of Hungary and the ...

In 1457, Vlad III Dracula seized the throne of Wallachia — and unleashed one of the bloodiest reigns in European history. Known as Vlad the Impaler, he ruled through fear, cruelty, and spectacle. This ...

Long before he became Dracula, he was Vlad, Son of the Dragon. Born into a kingdom caught between the Ottoman Empire and ...

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 ...

Chroniclers and historians claim that he impaled over 20,000 people during his reigns which, if true is a very, very big number. But is it true? We speak to Historian Dénes Harai whose paper: ...

Dracula Untold is an action horror film that features the origin story of the famous character from Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel. It was directed by Gary Shore and written by Burk Sharpless and ...

Though Dracula may seem like a singular creation, Stoker in fact drew inspiration from a real-life man with an even more grotesque taste for blood: Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia or — as he is better ...

A picture of Vlad III "Dracula", Voivode of the Principality of Wallachia, is pictured at Forchtenstein Castle in Burgenland, Austria The castle is home to one of the few paintings of the cruel ...

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 ...

The BBC’s blood-soaked re-invention of Dracula comes to an end tonight after three-nights of decapitated nuns, surprise reveals and a lot of blood. As played by Danish actor Claes Bang, the titular ...