🩸 Episode 9  Vlad the Impaler: The Real Dracula (Part II)

Vlad’s head was cut off, but his legend refused to die.
 In this After Dark descent, the Annals exhume the man who became the monster: how a blood-soaked warlord from 15th-century Wallachia rose from the grave to become Dracula, the immortal symbol of fear, lust, and power.

From betrayal and beheading to Bram Stoker and beyond, this episode traces Vlad’s transformation into the world’s most seductive nightmare. You’ll hear how folklore birthed the vampire, how Stoker turned repression into erotic horror, and how Hollywood gave the Impaler an Oscar-worthy afterlife.

🩸 Featuring:

• The real death and legend of Vlad the Impaler
• Strigoi, superstition, and the birth of the vampire myth
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula and its lust-soaked symbolism
• Hollywood’s obsession- from Bela Lugosi to Dracula Untold
• The eternal appetite: why vampires never die

It’s history dripping in horror, told with wit, darkness, and more bite than garlic night at the tavern.

🎙️ One Up the Annals, the comedy history podcast where shame becomes legend… and lust never dies. Please visit us on Youtube for bonus content on the video for Part 2. Click, like and subscribe everywhere, One Up The Annals. Find us on Patreon for more of the story and bonus content. Hurry I'm almost out of garlic and could use the money!

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