Bran Castle (epa) PRAGUE, May 26, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Romanian authorities today officially handed over Bran Castle in the southern Carpathian Mountains to Dominic of Habsburg, the legal heir to the once ...

Dracula Untold, available today on Blu-ray and DVD, offers a new spin on the legendary vampire's origin story by blending the narrative of Bram Stoker's villain with the real-life history of Vlad ...

When one thinks of where not to go if you do not want to be spookified, it is a deep, thick forest in a foreign land, especially if that far-off territory is the home of one of the world’s most ...

Count Dracula is synonymous with Halloween. The world's most famous bloodsucker and legendary vampire has inspired more fear than almost any other supernatural villain in modern history, as well as ...

“The museum is closed,” a woman tells me in the foyer of Bucharest’s National Art Museum. “Why?” I ask. “It’s only 3:30.” “Special occasion,” she says, as a guard sends three Italian tourists packing.

The prospect of a tourist bonanza from a Dracula theme park in Transylvania excites some Romanians, but opponents see only red Rudolph Chelminski Tourists flock to Bran Castle, known locally as ...

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. "He was a Romanian prince ...

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. “He was a Romanian prince ...

For four days -- and, more ominously, for three nights -- dozens of fearless vampire slayers from all over the world are gathering in the medieval Transylvanian town of Sighisoara in central Romania.

"He was a Romanian prince, not a vampire," said the schoolboy, as he tripped by torchlight through the nocturnal gloom of Forchtenstein Castle. The group being guided through the Austrian fortress are ...