COUNT DRACULA
What is the truh about Count Dracula and his castle? A
brutal man did indeed live in what is now Romania in a
castle in the fifteenthcentury. His name was Vlad Tepes, and
he was a prince. Many stories about this prince began when
he was alive because it was reported that he had a nasty
habit of throwing his foes onto sharpspikes.
Dracula, the man who turned himself into a vampre bat
late at night and lived on human blod, is a horrorstory that is
based on a novel written in the nineteenth century. There
are more than twentyHollywood films based on this legend.
Many legnds began to develop about
this prince who was often depicted as a
bloodthirsty villian. If you know about
Count Dracula from stories or the
movies, you might understnd how the
legend of the vampire started. The
prince used stakes to kill his foes; he
lived in Transylvania; he was
bloodthirsty.