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Marketed outside Romania as Dracula's Castle, it is presented as the home of the title character in Bram Stoker's Dracula. There is no evidence that Stoker knew anything about this castle, which has only tangential associations with Vlad the Impaler , voivode of Wallachia, whose byname 'Drăculea' resembles that of Dracula. [ 1 ]
Poenari Castle was constructed around the beginning of the 13th century by Wallachians. [3] Around the 14th century, Poenari (then known as Castle Arges) was the main citadel of the Basarab rulers. [4] [5] In the next few decades, the name and the residents changed a few times but eventually the castle was abandoned and left in ruins.
Castle Dracula (also known as Dracula’s castle) is the fictitious Transylvanian residence of Count Dracula, the vampire antagonist in Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel Dracula. It is the setting of the first few and final scenes of the novel.
He started writing Dracula there in 1895 while in residence at the Kilmarnock Arms Hotel. The guest book with his signatures from 1894 and 1895 still survives. The nearby Slains Castle (also known as New Slains Castle) is linked with Bram Stoker and plausibly provided the visual palette for the descriptions of Castle Dracula during the writing ...
Archaeologists stumbled upon a secret tunnel beneath a castle in Turkey near where Vlad the Impaler — also known as Dracula — is believed to have been held captive. The tunnel, located under ...
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.The narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles.It has no single protagonist and opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula.
Slains Castle is commonly linked with Dracula, although the claim, often seen on the internet, that Slains Castle inspired Dracula when Bram Stoker saw Slains Castle for the first time is a myth. The earliest entry in Bram Stoker's written notes for Dracula dates from 1890, two years before Bram's first visit to Cruden Bay. [22]
Hunyad Castle, a castle which was Vlad III Dracula's prison; Orava Castle, a location where Nosferatu was filmed "Castle Dracula", a song by Priestess from certain editions of the album Prior to the Fire "Dracula's Castle", a song by New Order from their album Waiting for the Sirens' Call; The titular castle in the video game series Castlevania ...