His favourite method of murder was impalement — in which victims were lowered on to sharpened stakes, suffering an agonising death as their weight pulled them down. Vlad was born in late 1431.

Vlad the Impaler was a medieval prince whose bloodthirsty acts inspired the world's most famous Vampire, Bram Stoker’s Dracula When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Vlad III was born in 1431 in Transylvania, a mountainous region in modern-day Romania.His father was Vlad II Dracul, ruler of Wallachia, a principality located to the south of Transylvania. Vlad ...

Kidnapped and trained by the Ottoman Empire, Vlad became sadistic–partly through bitterness, but definitely also through the teachings of the Ottomans, for whom impalement was already a commonly-used ...

This painting, "Vlad the Impaler and the Turkish Envoys," by Theodor Aman (1831-1891), allegedly depicts a scene in which Vlad III nails the turbans of these Ottoman diplomats to their heads.

In the most notorious episode in Vlad's anti-Ottoman campaigns, Mehmed retreated south of the Danube after finding 20,000 of his soldiers impaled outside the Wallachian capital. The forest of ...

When Vlad the Impaler Repelled an Invasion With a Forest of Corpses. By Nicolas Rivero | Young Shanahan, Flickr // CC BY 2.0 ... Vlad ended up having them both killed and impaled.

The Impaler poisoned wells and destroyed anything of use that Mehmed might capture. ... Vlad impaled some 20,000 more enemy soldiers and sympathizers.

A well-known woodcut shows Vlad dining while surrounded by impaled people on poles. He died in battle in January 1477, having killed an estimated 80,000 people in his lifetime.

An analysis of three letters written by Vlad the Impaler conclude that he may have suffered from a condition that caused him to cry tears of blood. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

This painting, "Vlad the Impaler and the Turkish Envoys," by Theodor Aman (1831-1891), allegedly depicts a scene in which Vlad III nails the turbans of these Ottoman diplomats to their heads ...