Vlad of Wallachia, better known as Vlad the Impaler, is most likely the root of several vampire legends, including Dracula. He would impale his enemies on stakes (hence his nickname), and some ...
and performance as the infamous Count Orlock (the film's renamed version of Count Dracula), that an urban legend that Schreck himself was actually a vampire has persisted almost as long as the ...
“They were quite clear that, in popular local legend, the vampire had three characteristics — it was a revenant, feasted on the living, and was contagious. The Austrian definition shaped the ...