Explore 15 of the most beautiful castles in Europe, from fairy-tale towers in Germany to dramatic fortresses in Scotland and ...

Spawned from the goth subculture, this shadowy community – known as a ‘vampire court’ – now includes people from all sorts of walks of life.

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The new "killer sandwiches" menu at House of Trembling Madness in Lendal went live today - with diners able to fill up on warm ciabatta sandwiches named after historic baddies such as Eric Bloodaxe, ...

There have been many cinematic adaptations of the classic Dracula story over the years, and these are the best ones to watch.

Like other chivalric orders ... enemies at this time gave him the less noble sobriquet Tepes—“the Impaler.” Vlad III mounted several bloody attacks against Catholic communities, too ...

Our Serbian guide Zoran is a jovial fellow and as we rumble through the streets of Belgrade in our minibus he regales us with ...

That’s the Butcher bird,” he said. “Butcher bird?” I asked, intrigued. He explained, “It’s called that because it impales its ...

which stopped as he became famous as a bad-ball hitter and earned the nickname Vlad the Impaler after the Romanian ruler who inspired Dracula. Like the man he was named after, the 6ft 3in ...

It sounds like the work of fantasists ... just a few weeks after the Moscow trip, members of the Vlad the Impaler group were photographed at a Russian Embassy reception in Bucharest.

How do you talk about a figure like Vlad wrapped up in more myth than history? What castles did we swap around? And hey! No flag errors! (because we had no flags but hush we'll take it ...

Vlad the Impaler may have cemented the throne for a little while but the Ottoman Empire was very keen on ousting him and replacing him with Radu the Handsome. And it seemed like all of his ...