[Editor]

The final episode of Ron Nasty's Halloween true horror series: One of the biggest cover ups in "horror history" is that Bram Stoker?s Dracula was based on a woman. The sexist society of the time hid the story of Elizabeth Bathory, a Countess of Hungary, and thought a man (Vlad the Impaler) would be more frightening.

http://209.162.185.84/Elizabeth_Bathory_by_cyanineblu.jpg

Source: http://www.wildvoice...47/Default.aspx

[Cloaked_Figure]

This would explain a few things. Not sure how reliable that is though.

[Vore]

To be honest it's quite obvious he was aware of both historical figures and more..

[Alynne]

He said that the real Count Dracula had no known accounts of him drinking human blood, but I watched a program on him a few years ago and it did mention that he would sometimes drink blood with his evening meal.

As for Elizabeth Bathory, there are a lot of people who have heard of her. Some of the things he said were slightly different than the things I had read about her, but for the most part, pretty accurate.

That guy had a interesting way of speaking. He paused a lot and emphasized words that didn't need to be. And he kept saying "Vad". He sounded southern. Accents are neat....


Here is a link to some info on Dracula if you want it.

http://www.donlinke....a/vlad.htm#Vlad

Though, this doesn't mention anything about him drinking blood.

Alynne

This post has been edited by Alynne: 04 November 2006 - 05:18 PM

[Bright One]

Charles Dicken based Mrs Haversham of Great Expectations on a man.

[Fluid of life]

It is possible that he mixed stuff from more than one person to suit his needs and sell the book better.