Category: Vlad the Impaler, Vlad Tepes, Vlad III

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Decoding History: Vlad Dracula’s Letters and Their Scientific Secrets

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There are moments in history when the past reveals itself willingly to those who study it with patience and passion. One such arrived recently, when historical chemist researchers bent over three 500-year-old letters written by voivode Vlad III of Wallachia, the man the world remembers as Vlad the Impaler, or Vlad Drăculea, the Son of the Dragon.

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Vlad the Impaler and How Dracula’s Epic Shadow Was Made

Vlad the Impaler and How Dracula’s Epic Shadow Was Made

Long before Bram Stoker wrote Dracula there was Vlad the Impaler: voivode of Wallachia, enemy of the Ottomans, ruler feared as much for his punishments as for his political cunning.

This is the Vlad who moves through the pages of When Secrets Bloom and Kate’s Letter, included in the Courage Anthology out 17 JUNE. Vlad the man, consumed by passions and hidden fears—not as a figure of legend already swallowed by bats and myth. A man still anchored in the hard geography of his own century.

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