Vlad el empalador
Subtitle: en busca del auténtico drácula
By: M.J. Trow ; traducido del inglés y anotado por Cristina de la Cerda Caraballo ; prólogo de Antonio Ballesteros
Contributors: Cerda Caraballo, Cristina de la; Ballesteros, Antonio
Publisher: Ediciones Jaguar
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Madrid
Language: spa
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9788495537966
Subjects: Kings and rulers; Count Dracula (Fictitious character); Drácula, Conde (Personaje ficticio); Historia; Reyes y gobernantes; History; Biography; Biografía
Other titles: En busca del auténtico drácula
Work titles: Vlad the Impaler : In search of the real Dracula
Description: The Count Dracula of legend is revealed to be based on a 15th century Romanian warlord called Vlad Tepes who favoured fearsome night attacks on the Turks and torturing his captors by driving stakes through their bodies in this grimly fascinating piece of historical detective work. If there is such a beast as a 'Draculanorak', then this is the book they've been waiting for. Among fascinating snippets unearthed are the fact that Christopher Lee wore red contact lenses for those blood-red eyeballs in the Hammer films, and the former dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu once said smugly to his health visitor: "A man like me comes along only once every five hundred years".
Notes: Translation of: Vlad the Impaler : In search of the real Dracula.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-340) and index.