Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Count Dracula wasn't only a fictional character created by Bram Stoker. The character was based on a real-life man named Vlad III, ...

Count Dracula, a mythical, blood-sucking undead creature, is based on a real individual who has a unique place in Roman history. Vlad Dracula, nicknamed "Vlad Tepes" ("Vlad the Impaler"), was ruler of ...