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

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 ...

The guided group running through the fortress is eager to know about the “Vlad the Impaler”. The Forschtenstein Castle is home to paintings of Vlad, the cruel prince of the 15th century and its ...

Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler, is one of history’s most murderous figures — and the inspiration for Count Dracula. The Romanian prince was behind countless acts of unspeakable barbarity and ...

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 ...

Belfast, Northern Ireland — Welsh actor Luke Evans has a penchant for larger-than-life characters. He's twice played Greek gods — Apollo in "Clash of the Titans," Zeus in "Immortals" — and he's ...

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 ...

"He was a Romanian prince, not a vampire," said the schoolboy, as he tripped by torchlight through the nocturnal gloom of Forchtenstein Castle. The group being guided through the Austrian fortress are ...

A picture of Vlad III "Dracula", Voivode of the Principality of Wallachia, is pictured at Forchtenstein Castle in Burgenland, Austria The castle is home to one of the few paintings of the cruel ...