Dracula

Before Dracula was a vampire, he was a man who did things the vampire never dared.

This is an original work of history about the real Vlad III of Wallachia. It is not Bram Stoker's novel.

Born to a small country pinned between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary, handed to the Turks as a boy hostage, Vlad clawed his way to a throne he would hold by terror. Betrayed by his allies and imprisoned for a dozen years, he died obscurely, and was reborn four centuries later as the most famous monster on earth.

Every famous story is told in full, with an honest guide to what's history and what's legend.