Wallachia in the 15th century was an unstable region with many pretenders to the throne, local feuds and external threats ...

Luke Evans recounted a conversation between him and King Charles about the history of his family and his relation to Vlad Tepes III in his memoir, “Boy from the Valleys: My Unexpected Journey.” Per ...

Peter C. Earle writes: Another Halloween is upon us, bringing its late autumnal burst of costumes, candy, and merriment. Ghosts, witches, mummies, zombies, Frankenstein's monster, film and television ...

Dracula. It’s a great name. It almost means son of the devil and it almost means son of the dragon. Vlad Tepes was the son of a royal warlord. The kind you might see on Xena, only with teeth. Father ...

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 ...

You read that headline right. Researchers believe they have found the grave of Vlad Tepes III, better known as Vlad the Impaler, aka the guy who was probably a real vampire if there ever was one. And, ...

Cloaked in a black cape like the infamous count himself, 10-year-old Niklas Schuetz runs through the dark corridors of a hill-top castle in search of the truth about Dracula. "He was a Romanian prince ...

In 1979, the Romanian national film industry produced the biopic VLAD TEPES. Released three years after the 500th anniversary of Vlad III's death in battle, it can safely be assumed director Doru ...

Bran Castle, in central Romania, was the home of Prince Vlad 'the Impaler' Tepes III, who inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula Romanian officials were embroiled in a battle yesterday over who has the right ...

King Charles isn’t shy about sinking his teeth into royal history. Actor Luke Evans wrote a memoir that was published this year, titled "Boy from the Valleys: My Unexpected Journey." In it, the ...