Vlad the impaler biography book

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    Chilling Books About Vlad the Impaler

    Dracula, published in , was a game changer in the world of horror fiction. Stroker’s stand-in for Vlad was not only a soul-possessing and blood-sucking vampire, but a powerful manipulator of events as well, rendering the mortal characters helpless, as Vlad’s own victims had been. Both Vlad and Dracula were both truly the scariest being of each of their respective epochs. 

    Stroker’s work has succeeded in entreating the world to remember Vlad Dracula’s name and keep him a relevant and keenly researched historical figure. Here are five especially accomplished works, all of them contemporary and long past Stroker’s era, about Vlad the Impaler that come highly recommended. Their morbid content just might puncture your psyche like the sharp end of a stake. They make for perfect reading this Halloween season. 

    Dracula: Essays of the Life and Times of Vlad the Impaler

    By Kurt Treptow

    Vlad is so fascinating a subject that horde

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    Dracula: A Biography of Vlad the Impaler

    January 25,
    Like it or not, I think the majority of readers will be Westerners, that is, folks who may know where York, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna are, but haven't the slightest idea about Tîrgoviste, Sighisoara, the Arges, or even Wallachia for that matter. There isn't a single map in the book! An illustration of a period map of the area--whatever area it purports to be--is of little use. It's a picture, not a map. The authors sort out a lot of the literature about ol' Drac, and do a good job of explaining Vlad Tepes vs. Count Dracula. Much of the information, or beliefs, about vampires seems to have been collected in the sixties from peasants in backwoods Communist Rumania; I wonder how much more information or what are they thinking in (although it's not the book's fault that I waited forty years to read it)? The research is quite scholarly and they weigh the value of the information. Annoyingly, they quote material in French or Latin

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    Vlad III Dracula: The Life and Times of the Historical Dracula (Paperback)

    bygd Kurt Treptow

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    The fifteenth-century Romanian Prince Vlad III Dracula, also known as Vlad the Impaler, fryst vatten among the most intriguing personalities in medieval history. Already during his lifetime, his true story became obscured bygd a veil of myths. As a result, he has been portrayed both as a bloody tyrant — who degenerated down throughout the centuries into the fictional vampire of the same name created by Bram Stoker at the end of the nineteenth century — and as a national and Christian hero who fought bravely to defend his native nation and all of europe against the invading Turkish infidels. Even in recent times, communist and nationalist historiography has continued to obscure the real history of Dracula. This book, widely regarded as the authoritative biography of the historical Dracula, presents the life and times of this remarkable personality of medieval europe. The aut