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Dracula was a fictional character from a novel by the same name, written in 1897 by Bram Stoker.

He was named for the notoriously cruel and real-life Vlad III Tepes [a/k/a Vlad III the Impaler] (1431 - 76), a ruler of Walachia, whose epithet was Dracula ("Son of the Dragon"). Vlad was said to have put to death 20,000 men, women, and children by impaling them upright on stakes.

Note also that Vlad the Impaler's father was named "Vlad II Dracul".

The Dracula character became a stock figure in the Horror repertoire, portrayed with varying degrees of sympathy and repulsion.

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