Also known as Vlad III, Vlad Dracula (son of the Dragon), and—most famously—Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Tepes in Romanian), he was a brutal, sadistic leader famous for torturing his foes.

That’s the Butcher bird,” he said. “Butcher bird?” I asked, intrigued. He explained, “It’s called that because it impales its ...

The tall, soundproofed doors discreetly mask the DJ-fueled affair ... said to be the final resting place of Vlad the Impaler, who inspired Bram Stoker’s 1897 Gothic horror novel "Dracula." ...

Explore the old town, a hub of dining and energetic nightlife complete with busts of Vlad the Impaler, take in the ... from themed saunas to clay mask and scrub rituals. A one-day pass with ...

Vlad the Impaler's Fortress in Poenari (Arges County) was reopened for visits on Monday, after extensive conservation and restoration work. The fortress, located on the administrative territory of ...

A lawyer from a shadowy group named after Vlad the Impaler met with the deputy Russian military attache at a Bucharest restaurant to plot the overthrow of the Romanian state, according to ...

The group, named “Vlad the Impaler Command” after Romania’s medieval ruler who served as inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, included a 101-year-old retired general named Radu Theodoru ...

But Transylvania is a real place in what is now modern Romania, in Western Europe, and Dracula was a real person known to the world as Vlad III or Vlad Tepes, meaning the Impaler. Welcome to ...

All men are not Vlad the Impaler.” As both a satirist and a man ... “Real Men Don’t Wear Masks” and “Real Men Don’t Get Covid.” The Trump campaign has adopted this message in an ...

The period has given us one of the greatest movie monsters of all time, Dracula (inspired by Vlad the Impaler), and much ... the mother dons a demon mask she stole from a soldier she lured to ...

THE "true" home of Dracula where bloodthirsty Vlad the Impaler lived is set to open to the public. Until five years ago, Poienari Castle in the city of Curtea de Arge, Romania, had been left ...