Putting them all together in a single reference document seemed like a good idea at the time ...

http://www.eskimo.com/~mwirkk/castle/vlad/vladhist.html
The Historical Dracula is a 1992-vintage essay by Ray Porter, which has been posted on the website of Matthew L. Wirkkala (a fan of Mr. Porter's). This classic essay is the source for a great many of the other website articles.
http://www.eskimo.com/~mwirkk/castle/vlad/vladtepesissue.txt
Mr. Wirkkala's website also includes the Vlad Tepes Issue – a correspondence received an impassioned Romanian national. It's a rant from a guy with a bee in his bonnet but it contains some interesting points.

http://roswell.fortunecity.com/seance/500/vamps/vlad/intro.html
offers a 2-parter comprising The Life of Vlad Dracula and The Historical Dracula.

http://www.arthur.nl/dracula/index.html
The Dracula section of Arthur's Web has links to 2 further pages with some excellent graphics: The History and The Legend.

http://www.castleofspirits.com/vlad.html
The Castle of Spirits website has a 2-parter called Vlad Dracula - The Impaler. This is a good piece with useful things to say on the pictures and includes the Dracula history and ancedotes, and a section of facts/myths.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/history/vlad/index_1.html
The Crime Library website includes Vlad the Impaler: Dracula's Real-life Persona – a nine part effort by Joseph Geringer. This is an abundant source.

http://www.ici.ro/romania/en/turism/drachist.html
The Romanian tourism industry provides a summary of the Dracula story in Romanian English.
http://www.ici.ro/romania/en/istorie/hi30.html
The same source also provides historical context about Romania from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century.
2004/11 The above 2 URLs have been updated due to changes in their website.

http://www.donlinke.com/drakula/vlad.htm
VLAD TEPES - The Historical Dracula by Don Linke is a well designed site containing all the facts. It also includes a comprehensive gallery of pictures of Vlad, castles, places, documents, etc.

http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/Balkan/Dracula.html
The Real Prince Dracula is a well constructed piece with lots of further information, e.g. on books, videos, websites, etc.

http://www.dagonbytes.com/vampires/history/dracula/
Vlad Dracula Timeline is just that – a listing of dates giving Dracula history and context.

http://www.tabula-rasa.info/DarkAges/VladTheImpaler.html
Vlad The Impaler is another piece written in a casual style but full of good stuff. It also has a long bibliography.

http://hamsterrepublic.com/html/vladhistory.html
The quaintly titled HamsterRepublic website has a page called About Vlad the Impaler (the man not the hamster)

http://www.angelfire.com/me/girlsparadise/vamp22.html
This website has a factual article on Vlad Dracula with some constructive remarks on blood drinking.

http://www.horrorseek.com/horror/drlarry/vlad.htm
Another factual Dracula article.

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Vlad-Tepes
nationmaster.com has a somewhat erratic version of the Vlad Tepes history in its encyclopedia section.

2005 http://user.intop.net/~jhollis/dracula.htm
Another student's history of Vlad Tepes is to be found on this personal website belonging to June D. Hollis. Authorship of the piece is credited to someone called Emily Eichelberger.

2005 http://gothlupin.tripod.com/vvlad.html
This website offers the history of Vlad Tepes: Dracul plus a picture.

2005 http://www.romaniatravel.com/index.php?lng=en&tree=58#14
The Romania Travel website contains a history of Vlad Dracula and an interactive map with links to information on places of interest.

2005 http://www.answers.com/topic/vlad-iii-dracula
Answers.com offers history and reference material, with a wealth of links, from the Wikipedia on-line encyclopaedia.

2005 http://www.romaniatourism.com/dracula.html
The Romanian National Tourist Office offers some tourist information and its own account of Vlad Dracula's history based on the essay by Benjamin Hugo Leblanc.

2005 http://www.adventuretransylvania.com/dracula.htm
Adventure Transylvania provides its own version of the "Myth & Reality" of Vlad Dracula and Halloween in Transylvania, its own "The Dracula tour".

2005 http://www.dracula.freeuk.com/vlad-1.html
offers an extensive account of Vlad Dracula's history – A Complete History of Vlad the Impaler – with the anecdotes and it cites 2 works by Radu Florescu & Raymond McNally.

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~brantley/women/studentweb/Lacey/vlad.html
has a student essay with the title Vlad Dracula was a Wallachian prince in the 15th century who became a ruler eventually. The author is a lady called Lacey and her essay covers the facts and includes 4 references, which serve as a brief bibliography.
2003/09 This item had vanished at the last attempt to access it. There's only a reduced copy in our archive now.

http://www.opa.com/vampire/Dracula.html
offers a piece called The History of the Family Dracul, which is sourced from the Florescu/McNally book In Search of Dracula and includes a fair selection of pictures.
2004/02 This item had vanished at the last attempt to access it. There's only a reduced copy in our archive now. opa.com is now the Orthopedic Professional Association of New Hampshire, USA.

http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/romanian/dracula.htm
DRACULA: between myth and reality by Adrian Axinte gives a lot more detail than the usual pieces and includes inevitable stuff about Bram Stoker's Dracula.
2004/02 This item had vanished at the last attempt to access it. There's only a reduced copy in our archive now.

http://www.dagobertsrevenge.com/index.html?articles/vlad
Profiles in Royalty: Vlad Dracula by Nick de Vere on the Dagobert's Revenge website contains material extracted from Professor McNally's work. Written in a casual style but full of good stuff.
2004/11 This item had vanished at the last attempt to access it. There's only a reduced copy in our archive now.

http://www.sacrosanctum.org/hvamps/vlad-intro.html
Vlad "Tepes" Dracula is a long piece containing all the info and some stuff on the vampire myth. There is also a listing of the Bassaraba Dynasty.
2004/12 This item had vanished at the last attempt to access it, but we do have an archived version of the data.

http://www.houseofice.com/history/dracula.shtml
The House Of Ice website has a factual piece on Vlad Dracula.
2005/09 This website has disappeared 2005 but we do have an archived version of the data.

http://www.rotravel.com/romania/history/app1.htm
Dracula, between legend and reality is available on the Romanian Travel site as an appendix to a broader survey of Romanian history. Half Vlad Dracula, half Bram Stoker.
2005/09 This website has disappeared but we do have an archived version of the data.
http://www.rotravel.com/romania/transylvania/sighi.htm
Sighisoara from the same source gives a history of the town where Vlad Dracula was born. We also have an archived version of this section.

http://www.vampnet.com/vlad.htm
gives a Brief History of Vlad Dracula V and a map of his home territory and its neighbours.
2007/06 This item had vanished at the last attempt to access it, but we do have an archived version of the data.

http://members.aol.com/johnfranc/drac05.htm
Vlad Dracula – An intriguing figure in the fifteenth century by Benjamin H. Leblanc contains the facts, a couple of good pix and a short bibliography.
This essay, with more and different pictures, could also be found at:
http://hermogene.free.fr/vlad_dracula.htm
2007/06 This item had vanished at the last attempt to access it, but we do have both articles archived article 1, article 2.

http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/EastEurope/Dracula.html
The Story of Vlad III Tepes, the REAL Dracula by Mircea Arsenie is about half and half the real Dracula and Stoker's version, and includes a bibliography.
2007/06 This item had vanished at the last attempt to access it, but we do have an archived version of the data.

http://www.net4u.ro/dracula/truth.html
Vlad Dracula - the truth used to come from an anonymous Romanian source.
2007/06 This item had vanished at the last attempt to access it, but we do have an archived version of the data.

http://www.draculascastle.com/html/poenari.html
The DraculasCastle website has a page on Poenari Fortress, Vlad's Residence (as opposed to Bran Castle), and includes an interesting javascript gadget for displaying larger views selected from a grid of thumbnails, and a link to a map showing where to find the castle.
http://www.draculascastle.com/html/lab2.html
The website also includes information on other Romanian castles, including Bran Castle, with location maps and additional pictures.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2853/castle.htm
This website contains some interesting bits about the real Castle Dracula at Poenari in the Arges valley.

http://www.ici.ro/romania/en/orase/sighisoara.html
Sighisoara contains a series of views of the town where Dracula was born and a link to a description and history page, which has further links to an article on "The Pearl of Transylvania", separate sections on the military, civil, ecclesiastical and downtown architectures, and a map of the castle area.
2004/11 This URL has been updated due to changes in their website.

http://www.romanianvoice.com/images/orase/sighisoara.php
Another take on Sighisoara offers a set of 9 large pictures of the city - all of professional quality (unlike the largely gloomy ones on the defunct "Say NO To Dracula Park" website – see the Tourism section below).
The Romanian Voice website has been redesigned since this listing was compiled. Links to pages showing 2 or more pictures of 27 other cities are available at the above URL, and clicking the BACK button shows a map of Romania with the city names superimposed as links.

2005 http://www.slimsite.nl/romania/index.html
A Dutch bloke called Eric Slim has created an interesting "travel story and photogallery" (in English) called Dracula's Romania. Lots & LOTS of photos.
2007/06 This item had vanished at the last attempt to access it, but we do have an archived version of the data.

http://www.tkinter.smig.net/QueenMarie/CastleBran/ArchitecturalDigest/index.htm
This website contains a feature on Bran Castle under the title "HISTORIC HOUSES:IN THE SHADOW OF DRACULA" and there is a whole lot more about Romanian places elsewhere.

http://www.draculand.com/
DracuLand is about Bran Castle not the real Dracula's castle, so something to avoid by anyone wanting pukka gen.
2004/12 This item had vanished at the last attempt to access it. The domain name is now up for sale.

http://www.draculea.homestead.com/Vlad.html
This website is also offering Bran Castle as Dracula's castle and its text is packed full of the Dracula myths.
2004/12 This item had vanished at the last attempt to access it. There's only a reduced copy in our archive now.

http://www.ferncanyonpress.com/vampires/postage.shtml
The Fern Canyon Press website includes Dracula on Postage Stamps – single stamps and miniature sheets from all over the place featuring Vlad Dracula and also a range of horror film monsters.

http://www.sighisoara.8k.com/
This is a Sighisoara website, which has some nice pictures of the city and some naff comments from tourists on another page.

2005 http://www.pilotguides.com/destination_guide/europe/hungary_and_romania/dracula.php
The Pilot Destination Guide has a feature called Prince of Darkness: The Real Count Dracula which contains a little potted history and some info on relevant places to visit in Romania.

2005 http://www.vsra.net/dractour/dractour.html
The Transylvania Vampire Tour costs ONLY $1799 Complete!

2005 http://www.romtour.com/drtours.html
Quest Tours and Adventures offer tours devoted to
DRACULA: MYTH AND HISTORY
Prince Vlad Dracula The True Story
TOUCH OF TRANSYLVANIA and
HALLOWEEN in TRANSYLVANIA.

2005 http://www.culturalromtour.com/trip.php?id=29
Cultural Romtour offers a "Complete Dracula Tour", which starts and finishes in Bucharest.

2005 http://www.adventuretransylvania.com/halloween-dracula.htm
Adventure Transylvania is offering Halloween in Transylvania, its own "The Dracula tour".

http://www.marshal.ro/income/03/
In cautarea Contelui Vampir [In Quest of the Vampire Count] offers details of a 4-day vampire tour. Written in Romanian, the piece includes some nice pix and the awful prospect of "Halloween at Castle Dracula".
The above is 2002's tour; there are now 5 new tours for 2003 (details in Romanian).
2004/02 The vampire tours had disappeared completely at the last look at this website. But we do have an archived version of the 2002 tour.

http://www.nelivoyages.ro/dracula.html
The Dracula Tour offers up some noteworthy points of historical interest.
2005/09 This website is now history but we do have an archived version of the tour details.

http://www.dracula-land.com/introducere.htm
Dracula Land – has nice pictures but it's very slow to load.
2003/09 The website has now gone. There's just a holding page at the moment but there is a reduced copy of the former content in our archive.

http://www.draculapark.ro/
Dracula Park is the Romanians cashing in on their best known national hero. Some interesting bits. Available in English, German and Romanian.
2003/09 This item had vanished at the last attempt to access it. There's only a reduced copy in our archive now.

Say NO to Dracula Park! used to be a website protesting about the building of Dracula Park in a protected nature reservation containing 400 year old oak trees. It contained a collection of dark photos with little or no explanation.
http://www.sustainable.sighisoara.com/en/index.html
is now defunct – maybe the Romanian Tourist Board gave the operators the Ceausescu treatment for dissent. Anyway, all you get is this when you try to go to sustainable.sighisoara.com:

Forbidden

You do not have permission to access the requested file on this server.

2003/09 Since we told the webmaster at sighisoara.com that the link to sustainable.sighisoara.com goes nowhere, someone has installed a redirect gadget to send all traffic for sustainable.sighisoara.com to sighisoara.com, which is in Romanian.
2005/07 There is some information on 'Sustainable Sighisoara' from 2002/05 on the I.N.T.B.A.U. website. http://www.intbau.org/newsarchive2002.htm#Sighisoara

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/abroad/ak981001.htm
The Hills of Sighisoara is an airmail letter from a guy called Akash Kapur. Nice title graphic, naff story.
2004/12 This item was available only to subscribers to theatlantic.com at the last attempt to access it.

http://home.t-online.de/home/Rumaenien-Bilder/dia10.htm
This website created by Wilhelm Scherz has an excellent photo-essay about the town (in German).
2004/02 This item had vanished at the last attempt to access it. There's only a reduced copy in our archive now.

The Draculas – A Bibliography is a listing of books about both Draculas trawled from the works listed here.

http://www.stormfront.org/whitehistory/hwr36i.htm
History of the White Race - Chapter 36 part 1 – Romania contains some interesting context – if from a white supremacist website.

http://www.ancient-art.com/medieval.htm
Guy Clark Ancient Coins provides info on coinage of the time of Dracula's reign. [Note: it's a very small bit in a very long document.]

http://members.aol.com/atamas/index.htm
Romanian native Andrei F. Tamas has an interesting website which combines real Dracula stuff – including the myths – with a vampire chronology from 1000 on. [Note: the website was the source of the animated bricks on the left.]

http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/davros/57/drac.html
Andrew Modeen's CastleVania Anthology pages has a section entitled "In Search of Dracula" which combines some Draculas stuff with pictures from comics and movies.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=3118
Vlad Dracula also appears on the Find A Grave website.

http://www.aboutromania.com/dracula.html
Tatiana Murzin offers a pictorial essay on Vlad Tepes. A well designed website.

http://www.siebenbuerger.de/sbz/sbz/news/1036316974,31670,.html
The issue of Siebenbürgische Zeitung Online for November 3rd 2002 contains an article (in German) on portraits of Vlad Tepes.

http://www.antichrist.com.au/2000/0002/0002dracula.html
Dracula was a Christian gives a lot of interesting context – although some may find the design of the website a bit off-putting.
2004/02 This item had vanished at the last attempt to access it. There's only a reduced copy in our archive now.

http://www.pitt.edu/~slavic/courses/vampires/images/vlad/vlad/html
Vlad Tepes by Helena Goscilo and Petre Petrov has a number of interesting pictures and a set of off-site links to other websites about Dracula.
2003/09 This item had vanished at the last attempt to access it. There's only a reduced copy in our archive now.

All of the links above were working in November/December of 2002, as all of the sites were visited then. But the World Wide Web is not a stable entity. Links come and links get busted – and if any of the above links stop working, that's something outside the control of the author of this listing. So don't expect any apologies. And be advised that any updating and additions will be performed on a fairly random basis.

In view of the number of links which have gone busted since this directory page was established, RLC is planning to make available its archived versions of the lost material. They are reduced versions of the originals with irrelevant links and adverts, etc., removed. Some have been re-formatted to improve readability and the pages may contain images from other sources to tart them up a bit.
   Any copyright-holders who do not wish us to post 'messed about' versions of their intellectual property are invited to lodge an objection via an email sent to the address on the RLC front page. Proof of ownership required. Similarly, anyone who has no objections to the plan is invited to offer approval.
   2005 To make up for all the stuff which has gone missing, RLC has decided to add some current links, particularly to the TOURISM section.

The information above is provided for the interest and/or entertainment of those pottering around the world wide web. The authors of this listing accept no responsibility for the content of the sites listed and including the tourism sites does not constitute any kind of endorsement.

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