Exile as a Way of Life

"A Fortress on the Water"

The Basarab Dynasty

Mircea the Old

The Ottoman Danger

Wallachia-Strategic and Economic Issues

The Succession Crisis of 1420

Vlad Dracul's Youth

Transylvania, Land of Welcome

Vlad Dracul, Protector of Transylvanians

Finally, the Throne of Wallachia

A Prince and His Sons (1436-1448)

A Peace Treaty with Murad II

The Remarriage of Vlad Dracul

Murad II's 1438 Campaign in Transylvania

Vladislav, King of Poland and Hungary

János Hunyadi, Defender of the Transylvanian Frontier

Vlad Dracul, Prisoner of the Turks

The Disaster of Varna

The Campaign of 1445 on the Danube

The Conflict with János Hunyadi and the Death of Vlad Dracul

Vladislav II Installed on the Wallachian Throne

First Reign and New Exile (1448-1456)

A Transylvanian Childhood

A Wallachian Adolescence

Hostage in Ottoman Territory (1444-1448)

Dracula's First Reign (1448)

Exile in Moldavia

The Accord with János Hunyadi

The Reign (1456-1462)

"Mark of Red Iron"

"A Fierce and Dreadful Appearance"

The Princely Council of Wallachia

Wallachian Society in the Fifteenth Century

Very Restless Neighbors

"To Rule and Govern Accordingly"

Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary (1458)

Vlad Alone Against Everyone

Bloody Easter

"And Beheaded Him Near His Tomb . . ."

A Moldavian Danger?

The Conqueror of Constantinople

Five Hundred Young Men

Dracula's Danubian Campaign

Alone Against the Turks

Warrior of the Night

Radu the Handsome Assumes Power

Crusade or Internal Peace?

Propaganda, Exile, and Death (1463-1476)

The Improbable Treachery

The 1463 German Pamphlet

The Hungarian Manipulation Liberation

Dracula's liberation

"But He Was Pierced by Many Lances . . ."

A Face Covered With a Silk Cloth

Vlad and Mihnea: The Children of "The Devil"

The Descendants of the Sons of the Impaler

Tyrant or Great Sovereign?

The Evolving Die Geschicht Dracole Waide (The History of Voievod Dracula)

The Incarnation of Evil

A Pious Prince?

Dracula "The Beloved"

Discovery of the Russian Accounts of Dracula

The Tale of Voievod Dracula, A Political Manual Used by Ivan III

Laonikos Chalkokondyles

In the Entourage of Mahmud Pasha

Chalkokondyles' Disappearance

Dracula and Bram Stoker

Of Bats in General . . .

. . . and of Dracula in Particular

"Not On the Lips But On the Throat . . ."

Stoker a Plagiarist?

Marie Nizet and her Captain Vampire

The Romanian "Journey" of Marie Nizet

A Family History

Billy the Kid Versus Dracula

A New Golden Age

The Vampire in Romania

How to Proceed with a Strigoi

The Vampire's Identity Card

The Christianization of Vampirism

Vitamin C, Weapon Against Vampires

Conclusion: Dead Vampires and Living Vampires.