Gerard writes of "Nosferatu" as the local word for "vampire" — "in whom every [Romanian] peasant believes as firmly as he does in heaven or hell." The word traces back another 20 years to 1865 ...

Robert Wallis Matei Dan, Romania's minister of tourism, decided in 2001 that it was "time Dracula went to work for Romania." Robert Wallis The house of "Vlad the Impaler" lies in the center of ...