#310 | A History of Vampires | Fangs, Fear and Fiction
English Learning for Curious Minds
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Stoker's Dracula
Stoker's Dracula is believed to be inspired by Vlad the Impaler. The brutal ruegler of 15th century Romania got his nickname from his preferred method of torture, impaling his victims on a wooden or metal pole alive and leaving them there to die for hours or sometimes even days. As vampires became better known figures in western popular culture, they received more varying treatments in both literature and film. In 1931, Stoker's novel was put on the big screen with the release of the hugely influential Dracula movie. And moving into the 1990s and to the modern day, vampires almost went full circle, becoming human again, or at least with human hopes and dreams through films like Interview
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