HomePage | RecentChanges | Preferences You can edit this page right now! It's a free, community project Dracula as a vampire is derived from the historic Wallachian (southern Romania, 1436) ruler Vlad Tepes (the Impaler). He was immortalised by Bram Stoker as "Dracula", which means "son of the devil" (or of a dragon). In his six year reign he is estimated to have killed 100,000 people, mainly by using his favourite method of impaling them on a sharp pole.
see also Anne Rice