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The castle is home to one of the few paintings of the cruel 15th-century prince, and this Halloween its curators are trying to bring the real historical figure out from the chilling shadow of the monster invented by the Irish writer Bram Stoker.
Vlad the Impaler, known as Dracula, inspired the vampire in Bram Stoker’s novel. Vlad was no ghoulish fiend, though, for all his cruelty, as curators at his family’s castle in Austria emphasise.
Cloaked in a black cape like the infamous count himself, 10-year-old Niklas Schuetz runs through the dark corridors of a hill-top castle in search of the truth about Dracula.The real Vlad never set foot in Romania's Bran Castle widely taken as the inspiration for the lair of Dracula but it hasn't stopped it drawing visitors in their droves.
Cloaked in a black cape like the infamous count himself, 10-year-old Niklas Schuetz runs through the dark corridors of a hill-top castle in search of the truth about Dracula.