How Do You Kill Vampires?

How Do You Kill Vampires? The wooden stake through the heart was perhaps borrowed from fictional interpretations. Decapitation and/or dismemberment was another common method, but rarely was a specialist weapon used. Next to the simple wooden stake, the sexton’s or gravedigger’s spade would have been the preferred vampire slaying weapon. Can a silver bullet kill

How Is Carmilla Killed?

How Is Carmilla Killed? A few days later the old man that the woodman referred to, the Baron that the General knew, carried out the “formal proceedings” of killing Carmilla (Mircalla) in her tomb: “a sharp stake driven through the heart of the vampire . . . Then the head was struck off, and a

What Was The Inspiration For Dracula?

What Was The Inspiration For Dracula? To create his immortal antihero, Count Dracula, Stoker certainly drew on popular Central European folktales about the nosferatu (“undead”), but he also seems to have been inspired by historical accounts of the 15th-century Romanian prince Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler. What inspired the story of Dracula? Vlad the