Count Dracula might have been an invention of the author Bram Stoker, but there is a real-life disease called acute intermittent porphyria that somewhat mimics the symptoms of horror’s scariest ...

“People call it the vampire disease,” she told Jam Press. The real-life Count Dracula, Vlad III, is suspected to have had the ...

Count Dracula, a mythical, blood-sucking undead creature, is based on a real individual who has a unique place in Roman history. Vlad Dracula, nicknamed "Vlad Tepes" ("Vlad the Impaler"), was ...

Dracula, prince of darkness ... the deaths of more than 80,000 people in his lifetime—a large percentage of them by impalement. Vlad III’s cruelty was real, but his reputation as a villain ...

QUESTION: Count Dracula ... and Russian people, and other Slavic-speaking populations. In the specific case of Vlad the Impaler (1431-1476), the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the ...