THE REAL DRACULA ventures into the mists of history to chronicle the

exploits of the 15th century prince known as Vlad the Impaler. Ruling

from a mountain fortress reached by a stairway of 1400 steps, Vlad was a

sadist of unimaginable proportions. Legends say that he impaled

hundreds of his enemies on stakes in the plain below his castle, then

took lunch surrounded by the grisly ""forest"" of his victims, dipping

his bread in their blood! Bram Stoker, in writing his classic 1897 novel

Dracula, took Vlad as his model for the vampire who has become a

cultural icon throughout the Western World. But the exploits of the

fictional vampires pale in comparison to the horrors committed by Vlad,

THE REAL DRACULA!