Aurel Danescu
The subject of “Dracula” is one of the most fascinating and interesting in the world being always presented as a fictional character that during the day lives a normal life, while in the midnight transfigures in a cruel vampire, attacking people, sucking their blood and transfiguring them to their turn, in evil persons. Even the real character that lived in the XV century and inspired the creation of the fictional Dracula, the Walachian Prince Vlad Ţepeş (or Vlad the Impaler), is also often shown as a cruel despot, that led his people with a heavy hand, punishing with very rough methods everyone who breaks the laws. In these summary descriptions, his harshness terrible frightened both his people and the country’s enemies, spreading his fame in the world. The most presented describes of Prince Vlad Ţepeş are those of his cruelty deeds, his so-called pleasure to torture people, the use of most horrible torture methods of that Age, in order to get right the society, or to horrify the enemies that dare to invade his country. I think every time the people read this type of description of the legendary character, wonder themselves: Was Vlad Ţepeş really like this? Of course, some of these things are true, some are exaggerated and there is a seed of truth in everywhere. However, I hope that until the end of this book, you will find the answer to this question and to others more! The character of Dracula was during the time, treated in so many books, movies, articles, etc, that it seems everything was told about him. Many writers, journalists, fictional researchers, film producers, more or less known, have chosen the fictional character Dracula as the subject for their work. So that, why another book of Dracula to be written”? Well, first of all, the book you are holding now is not about the character of Dracula anymore! There is nothing fictional in this book, nothing about the bloody sucker vampires, or mysterious counts; nothing of all these! This book is a historically
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