Count Dracula`s suite

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Sometimes the Moonlight-Shadowcastle has the honour to accommodate the most famous and popular of all vampires: Count Dracula.
We all know him as the aristocratic, arrogant and charismatic Prince of Darkness.
Dracula`s popularism began at the end of the 19th century, when the irish author Bram Stroker wrote his unforgetable novel about the Count`s "life".
Dracula left his wild and exotic home in Transylvania to travel into the victorian London, the capital city of western civilization in this time. There he fullfilled the secret erotic dreams of the sexual frustrated women in this repressed society.
It was the first time that a member of my mortal family, my great-great-grandfather Abraham Van Helsing, encountered the Prince of Darkness and destroyed him in his own castle in Transylvania, until Dracula´s power was restored by his servants.
The mortals are so fascinated by the vampire-count that he inspired many artists, authors and filmproducers. More about the
history of the Dracula-movies you can learn on the next page.

But where lies the origin of Dracula?
Dracul was the surname of Vlad II., Woiwode of Walachai.
His son Vlad III. was called Draculea, the latin expression for "son of dracul", he was the mortal being before Vlad III. became a vampire.

Vlad III. Tepes (1431-1476/77) was inaugurated on the throne of the Walachai in the year 1456. He was a very cruel man who reigned his subjects with bloody brutality. It was said that he impaled thousends of people and took delight in their painfull death. Later he led war against the Turks and was killed in this war.