Vlad the Impaler: In Search of the Real Dracula

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According to legend, Vlad the Impaler or Dracula,

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By M.J. Trow (au)
Year: 2006
Pages: 294
Binding Paperback
ISBN 750935227

Product Code: 1422391248

Description

According to legend, Vlad the Impaler or Dracula, impaled his victims, then sat at a table mopping up their blood from his plate; later he hung the still alive bodies of opposing forces on a field of stakes. The author goes backwards in time from the celluloid Count of Hammer & Universal Studios to the literary creations of Bram Stoker, Sheridan le Fanu & John Polidori. Before that, the folklore of Europe carries tales of blood-sucking ghouls who sleep in their coffins by day & terrorized remote villages by night. This book looks at Vlad -- the Impaler; the Renaissance prince whose reputation was destroyed by his enemies; the hero who welded Wallachia into a fighting & defiant nation-state; & the defeated martyr, captured by the Hungarian king Corvinus.

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