Original text - English - The very first appearance of Count Dracula isin...

The very first appearance of Count Dracula isin Bram Stoker's "Dracula". There wasa Dracula in the 15th century: Vlad the Impaler. Stoker didin't know much about him. He was simply looking for some information about vampire beliefs in Transylvania when he came across his name in a book he was researching entitled An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldovia (1820). This book has very short section on a "Voivode Dracula" who fought against the Turks.