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	Dracula Blogged
		Dracula Twins is a cute game, where you play a young vampire adventuring through a cemetary stocked with monsters.
		November 10, 2007 in Dracula in culture
		The Castle of Dracula now stood out against the red sky, and every stone of its broken battlements was articulated against the light of the setting sun.
	infocult.typepad.com /dracula (3109 words)

	Dracula: Tutte le informazioni su Dracula su Encyclopedia.it (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Con il passare dei giorni alcuni particolari diventano terrificanti fino alla scoperta del terribile segreto del Conte: egli è in realtà un terribile mostro che si nutre del sangue dei viventi.
		Dracula, però, riesce ad evitare Varna e risale lungo il corso del fiume che costeggia da vicino il suo Castello: per prenderlo in trappola i cacciatori si dividono in tre gruppi: Jonathan e Lord Godalming, il dr.Stewart e Quincey Morris, il dr.Van Helsing e Mina.
		Rifiutando di utilizzare le scenografie di cartone così in voga in quegli anni, Murnau girò il film in esterni, utilizzando luoghi dal vivo e dalla forte carica evocativa e fantastica: il Castello Oravski nei Carpazi e i vicoli gotici di Lubecca.
	www.encyclopedia.it /d/dr/dracula.html (1874 words)

	Dracula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dracula is an epistolary novel, written as collection of diary entries, telegrams, and letters from the characters, as well as fictional clippings from the Whitby and London newspapers, and dictation discs.
		Dracula flees back to his castle in Transylvania, followed by Van Helsing's gang, who manage to track him down just before sundown and kill him by "shearing through the kneck" and stabbing him in the heart with a bowie knife.
		This is evidenced in Castlevania:Bloodlines, as one of the protagonists is a relative of Quincy Morris.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dracula (5944 words)

	The Historical Dracula - An Essay by Ray Porter (c)1992
		Dracula's body was decapitated by the Turks and his head sent to Constantnople where the sultan had it displayed on a stake as proof that the Impaler was dead.
		Dracula was well aware that many of these same nobles were part of the conspiracy that led to his father's assasination and the burying alive of his elder brother, Mircea.
		Dracula had the woman's breasts cut off, then she was skinned and impaled in a square in Tirgoviste with her skin lying on a nearby table.
	www.eskimo.com /~mwirkk/castle/vlad/vladhist.html (10429 words)

	phillyBurbs.com \| The Dracula Guide
		This year marks the 73rd anniversary of Universal's "Dracula"; the first supernatural 'talkie', and the founding member of one of the main genres of modern cinema.
		But even aged and dated, the entire world understands a pantomime draw of a cape and a theatrically intoned imitation of "Good Eve-en-ing..." With Lugosi's portrayal, Dracula ascended permanently to his throne as 'King of the Vampires'.
		On the way, we'll be taking a look at the key figures and his relatives in the genre, and see how the role of vampire has come full circle in the last 200 years.
	www.phillyburbs.com /dracula/index.shtml (883 words)

	Royalty.nu - Vlad Dracula - Vlad the Impaler
		He was Prince Vlad III Dracula, also known as Vlad Tepes, meaning "Vlad the Impaler." The Turks called him Kaziglu Bey, or "the Impaler Prince." He was the prince of Walachia, but, as legend suggests, he was born in Transylvania, which at that time was ruled by Hungary.
		Dracula was born in November or December of 1431.
		Dracula's wife was so frightened that she threw herself from the upper battlements.
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/Balkan/Dracula.html (2649 words)

	Vlad Dracula/Tepes - The Impaler
		The history of Vlad Dracula is surrounded by myth and legend I had a really tough time sorting out the facts from the legends, the truth is that nobody is too sure what is what.
		The word "tepes" in Romanian means "impaler" and Vlad was so named because of his cruel and gruesome habit of impaling humans and leaving them to rot in the sun as a means of punishing his enemies.
		Dracula then put his own money in the wagon overnight adding one florin to the original sum.
	www.castleofspirits.com /vlad.html (2349 words)

	Count Dracula's Legend
		Count Dracula, a fictional character in the Dracula novel, was inspired by one of the best-known figures of the Romanian history — Vlad Dracula, nicknamed Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler) — who was a ruler of Wallachia (1456-1462).
		The house in which Vlad Dracula was born has a small plaque on the door and now is a restaurant and small museum of medieval weapons.
		Vlad Tepes was born in December 1431, in the fortress of Sighisoara, Romania.
	www.romaniatourism.com /dracula.html (1452 words)

	VLAD TEPES - The Historical Dracula
		Vlad Dracula was killed in battle against the Turks near the town of Bucharest in December of 1476.
		At the time of Vlad Dracula’s death Matthias Corvinus of Hungary was seeking to bolster his own reputation in the Holy Roman Empire and may have intended the early pamphlets as justification of his less than vigorous support of his vassal.
		Vlad Dracula was greatly pleased by this answer, showered him with gifts, and declared that had he answered in any other manner he would have been immediately impaled.
	www.donlinke.com /drakula/vlad.htm (0 words)

	Dracula - MSN Encarta
		When Dracula leaves his castle in Transylvania to go to England, he creates a reign of terror in the Stoker novel.
		As Dracula pursues his victims he is, in turn, pursued by Jonathan Harker, a lawyer married to Mina.
		By the time Vlad Dracula was overthrown in 1462, he had killed tens of thousands of his people, primarily by impaling them on stakes, a gruesome way to die.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701702355/Dracula.html (434 words)

	Dracula: The Terrifying Truth
		Dracula was imprisoned, first by the Turks, who hauled him away in chains, and later by the Hungarians.
		Dracula's father was murdered, while his older brother, Mircea, was blinded with red-hot iron stakes and buried alive.
		Dracula earned another nickname, "Vlad Tepes" (pronounced tsep-pesh), which means "Vlad the Impaler." Dracula's favorite method of torture was to impale people and leave them to writhe in agony, often for days.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/dracula1.html (637 words)

	Encyclopedia Obscura: Bram Stoker's Dracula (SNES)
		First, I was in a Roumanian pub, then in Dracula's stables, then in the woods.
		Suddenly the game was over, and I was told Dracula turned to mist as he died.
		Dracula's castle looks a lot like Bowser's, only the skeletons in Bowser's castle are from turtles.
	www.encyclopedia-obscura.com /gamesbram.html (1520 words)

	Dracula: Classic Monster Collection (1931)
		This second Dracula used the same sets and essentially the same script, except it featured a different cast and crew and is entirely in Spanish.
		Normally one might regard this alternate version of Dracula as nothing more than bizarre curiosity, a cheap thrill that can't compare to the English edition, especially since the latter is considered such a classic.
		Dracula appears in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.37:1 on this single-sided, dual-layered DVD; the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
	www.dvdmg.com /dracula.shtml (2926 words)

	Dracula Summary & Essays - Bram Stoker
		However, most critics agree that Dracula was based in part on a historical figure, Vlad the Impaler, a fifteenth-century Romanian ruler known for his indiscriminate brutality, which included a taste for impaling people alive on wooden spikes and watching them die in slow agony.
		While the character of Count Dracula was important for establishing the conventions of what would become an entire genre of horror tales, the book's plot was also very timely.
		In their exposure to Dracula and their attempts to catch him and destroy him, the various vampire hunters underscore the Victorian attitudes that were present at this time.
	www.enotes.com /dracula (429 words)

	Encyclopaedia :: encyclopedia : Vladislaus III Dracula (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"Dracula Waida Princeps et Waiuoda Walachiae Transalpinae, hostis Turcarum infensissimus 1.4.66"
		Vladislaus III Dracula, natus 1431 in Transylvania, vitae defunctus 1476, princeps, waiuoda et waida Wallachiae annis 1448, 1456-1462 et 1476.
		Dracula Comes, vampyrus monstruosus et persona principalis libri Stoker Dracula habetur a nonnullis nomen habere a Vladislao, sed non patet utrum huic similitudini sit aliquid praeter nomen, nam Stoker non videtur multa de Principe Wallachiae novisse.
	encyclopaedia.cc /Vladislaus_III_Dracula (142 words)

	Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Encyclopedia FunTrivia
		Bela was in the 1931 version, Christopher was in 1958's 'Horror Of Dracula', and Frank Langella was in a 1978 version.
		Renfield is murdered by Dracula because he attempted to tell Mina that she was in danger.
		At the end, Dracula's appearance changes back to a young man. Mina looks at the Church ceiling, and sees that Dracula has been forgiven, and is with his love, Elisabeta.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/Movies/Bram-Stokers-Dracula-1992-12199.html (819 words)

	Vlad Dracula Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1442, for political reasons, Dracula and his younger brother Radu were taken hostage by the Sultan Murad II; Dracula was held in Turkey until 1448, while his brother Radu decided to stay there until 1462.
		Dracula was also very concerned that all his subjects work and be productive to the community.
		It should also be kept in mind that the only real link between the historical Dracula (1431-1476) and the modern literary myth of the vampire is in fact the 1897 novel; Stoker made use of folkloric sources, historic references and some of his own life experiences to create his composite creature.
	members.aol.com /johnfranc/drac05.htm (1747 words)

	Full text and plot summary of Dracula by Bram Stoker
		Dracula surely needs little introduction, being the most famous tale of vampirism and the one to which all since it was published in 1897 have aspired to.
		Back on land, Lucy is vampirized by Dracula and dies despite the intervention of the wise and knowledgeable Professor Van Helsing.
		Dracula is not Stoker’s only novel, and he also wrote short-stories and dramatic criticism but this tale stands apart.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/0/47/90 (309 words)

	Dracula by Bram Stoker. Search, Read, Study, Discuss.
		Dracula is ultimately defeated, however, which theoretically nullifies the concern for racial decline.
		Dracula’s hoards of gold are also reflective of a Jewish nature.
		In one London scene Dracula confronts the group and tells them they will be his to do his bidding; Harker slashes Dracula’s jacket, and both coins and bills fall out of Dracula’s torn pocket.
	www.online-literature.com /stoker/dracula (1421 words)

	Dracula (1931)
		Dracula's Castle emerges into sight, and then the audience has its first eerie dark glimpse of Dracula's coffin in his dark, rat-infested, cob-webbed cellar.
		Dracula approaches and then crouches down at Renfield's neck for a meal of blood, enveloping him in his cloak.
		One night, during a performance of the London Symphony at the Opera House, an elegantly-dressed Dracula hypnotizes a female usher/hostess and commands her to interrupt Dr. Seward (Herbert Bunston) in his box, telling him that he is wanted on the telephone.
	www.filmsite.org /drac.html (2746 words)

	Dracula - A Musical of the classic gothic novel, Dracula, by Bram Stoker
		Dracula is the new musical by Gareth Evans and Christopher J. Orton, with orchestration by Ian Lynn.
		This professional work is a musical based upon the novel (and Stoker's original references for the novel) and not based upon a film version, or some romantic idea, of the story and title character.
		After extensive research had been conducted by the lyricist in 1999 / 2000 (including the use of references to Stoker's original notes for the novel), the initial lyric structures for some of the proposed songs and the outline of the musical plot were written.
	www.dracula-uk.com (1115 words)

	Vlad the Impaler: Dracula's Real-life Persona
		Prince Vlad, or as he was called even in his own time, Dracula (which means "Son of the Dragon") tops the list of Romania's many, many Christian crusaders who, in the transition years between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, fought to keep the Muslim-faithed Ottoman Turks out of their country.
		Determined not to be overtaken by the intrigue of an intriguing political underhandedness, in a world in which princes fell daily to smiling, hypocritical "allies," paranoia among the aristocracy was, and probably needed to be, utmost in a sovereign's disposition.
		In his lifetime, Dracula witnessed the rising use of gunpowder as a means of destruction, the Holy Crusades, the fall of Constantinople and the nouveau philosophy of art, alchemy and culture that became known as the Renaissance.
	www.crimelibrary.com /classics3/vlad/index.htm (1643 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . Romania - My Old Haunts . Dracula: The Metamorphosis of a Fiend . Flash version \| PBS
		"Dracula" was the honorific given to Vlad Tepes because, like his father before him, he belonged to the Order of the Dragon, dedicated to fighting Turks and heretics.
		Count Dracula could not enter a house unless invited, lost his supernatural powers during the day, and had to travel to England with seven boxes of soil from Transylvania because he had to sleep on native ground.
		Dracula Land is a proposed theme park intended to bring fame and fortune to a small town in the middle of Romania.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/stories/romania/dracula1.html (1793 words)

	Dracula
		David says, "Dracula is viewed as an evil, preying character, but he knows love and will act upon it." He seeks to show this in the pas de deux he has choreographed for Dracula and Mina.
		Dracula should not be in love with her, but against his better judgment he is. He is less aggressive with her than with his other victims.
		Dracula stalks Mina and Jonathan as an invisible creature longing to be with Mina.
	www.balletmet.org /Notes/Dracula.html (5506 words)

	Dracula (1931)
		Dracula's solicitor comes to Transylvania to deliver into Count Dracula's hands the deed to Carfax Abbey in London.
		Dracula's coach brings Renfield to Castle Dracula, a crumbling ruin overgrown with cobwebs and crawling with vermin.
		Dracula's unholy communion with Mina happens offscreen, too, despite being one of the most vivid passages in the book.
	www.tranquility.net /~benedict/dracula1931.html (696 words)

	Dracula (1972) - Don Markstein's Toonopedia
		Tomb of Dracula #1, the company's first use of vampires since the Code had come into effect (and no relation to either a Dracula series Dell Comics had done a few years earlier or another Hanna-Barbera was to do a few years later), had a cover date of April, 1972.
		The initial storyline skipped around a lot, as writers came and went, but settled down when, with the seventh issue, Marv Wolfman (Teen Titans, Dial H for Hero) took over the scripting, and continued to write the series for years.
		Blade's unique qualification for the position was that his mother had been bitten by a vampire just as she was giving birth to him, which rendered him immune to vampiric depredation.
	www.toonopedia.com /dracula.htm (685 words)

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