Count Dracula is the title character and main antagonist of Bram Stoker's gothic horror novel Dracula. He is considered the prototypical and archetypal vampire in subsequent works of fiction. Aspects
Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula in the 1931 film Dracula
Cover of Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, a collection of short stories authored by Bram Stoker
Ruins of Whitby Abbey in Whitby which features in the novel. As a creature resembling a large dog which came ashore at the Whitby headland, Count Dracula runs up the 199 steps to the graveyard of St Mary's Church in the shadow of the abbey ruins.
Christopher Lee starred as Dracula in numerous Hammer Horror films. Shown here is the 1958 film Dracula. Lee fixed the image of the vampire bearing dual elongated fangs in popular culture.
Vlad III, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula, was Voivode of Wallachia during three separate reigns. He was born in the House of Drăculești, as the son of Vlad II Dracul. Vlad is chief
Count Dracula
…the prototypical and archetypal vampire in subsequent works of fiction. Aspects of the character were inspired by the 15th-century Wallachian prince Vlad III Dracula, who (probably unknown to Stoker) was also known as Vlad the Impaler, and also believed to be inspired by Sir Henry Irving, Buffalo Bill and possibly…
Ambras Castle portrait of Vlad III (c. 1560), reputedly a copy of an original made during his lifetime
The house in the main square of Sighișoara where Vlad's father lived from 1431 to 1435
Ruins of the Târgoviște Princely Court in Târgoviște
The Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed II, who invaded Wallachia during Vlad's reign