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Vlad Ţepeş - in search of the real Dracula


I have been a keen horror film buff since I was a kid, and this is something else I can attribute to my dad. He gave me a 1958 collectors’ first edition of Forrest J Ackerman’s classic Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, and I was hooked from that moment on. I would pore over the [...]

Exploring that magical land beyond the forest


Castle Bran - Dracula’s Castle - high up in the Carpathian mountains
A few years ago I made the decision to visit a place which had fascinated me since childhood - Transylvania, the land beyond the forest. When I announced this is where I was bound for my summer holiday, strangers thought me eccentric and friends [...]