The Real Dracula: Vlad the Impaler

Thursday, October 31, 2013 - 10:01 in Psychology & Sociology

Though Dracula may seem like a singular creation, Stoker in fact drew inspiration from a real-life man with an equally disturbing taste for blood: Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia or — as he is better known — Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Tepes).

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