In Search Of Dracula, by history professors Radu Florescu and Raymond T. McNally, was perhaps the surprise publishing phenomenon of 1972. Investigating the suspected historical origins of Bram ...
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 ...
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He's a historian who connected a classic fictional character to a real-life tyrant. Radu Florescu's 1972 book In Search of Dracula, that he co-wrote with Raymond T. McNally, was the first to link Bram ...
Radu Florescu, who has died aged 88, was a Romanian historian who “discovered” links between Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula and Romania’s real-life bloodthirsty aristocrat, Vlad Tepes, the 15th-century ...
The success of Coppola's conflation of Dracula and Vlad didn't so much open the floodgates as instigate a steady drip-drip-drip of new blood into the concept. A TV movie that aired on Halloween 2000 ...