"A Serbian peasant named Peter Plogojowitz died in 1725 and was buried in his village of Kisilova. A little more than two months later, nine other villagers, young and old, died within a single week."
The First Vampire short story written in the english language, inspired the same night and place as Mary Shelly's 'Frankenstein'. - by John Polidori 1819
"What does the legend of Vlad the Impaler have to do with the modern world? Is it possible that the Dracula of myth truly existed—and that he has lived on, century after century, pursuing his own unknowable ends?"