Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In director Luc Besson’s latest film, "Dracula," the titular character is a hopeless romantic. (Vertical) The Lord of Vampires.

Nearly 80 years before Bram Stoker introduced the world to Count Dracula, a strikingly similar figure debuted in a pioneering 1819 short story: William Polidori’s The Vampyre. His name was Lord ...

Sighisoara, Romania — A scream echoes through the old house on the hill in Transylvania. A man in a black cape flies down the stairs. Outside a storm threatens. But even in Dracula’s hometown, evil is ...

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