Dracula

Dracula isn't a creature from myths, legends, or folklore. The fictional vampire is a product of Bram Stoker. The name, though, stretches back centuries to a prince who ruled the kingdom called Wallachia, which borders the land with which he's most famously associated: Transylvania. We'll be talking all about the pseudo-legendary exploits of the real bloody tyrant, the bizarre rules surrounding fictional vampires, and the inspirations for the most famous vampire novel of all time.

If you see your significant other on the roof scraping moss, you should just eat the soup they make you even if it makes you vomit.

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"Dracula" by Bram Stoker: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345

Bonus picture:

Radu the Handsome. Radu. So hot right now. Radu.

Radu the Handsome.
Radu. So hot right now. Radu.

All the Blood Countess Horribleness

Elizabeth Bathory torture techniques. Be warned, these are graphic and you cannot un-read.

  • Gave servants red-hot coins and keys to hold
  • Burned people with irons.
  • Left young women out in the snow and poured cold water on them until they eventually froze to death.
  • Set pubic hair on fire
  • Smeared women in honey and left them outside for twenty-four hours
  • Pulled a young woman's jaws until her face split

Bonus:

Elizabeth Bathory, the Blood Countess. Seriously, though, how chilling is that gaze?

Elizabeth Bathory, the Blood Countess. Seriously, though, how chilling is that gaze?

Music:

"Watermark" by Blue Dot Sessions 

"Independent Film" by Steve Combs

"Scalloped" by Blue Dot Sessions

"A Calendar Spread" by Blue Dot Sessions

"As Nihilism Gives Way to Existentialism" by Nihilore

"Support Me in this Moment that I'm About to Lose Heart" by Nihilore

"Studie I" by Jahzzar

"Aisles" by Jahzzar