You can’t mention Transylvania without thinking of Count Dracula and his blood-sucking deeds, but is it all as deliciously ghastly as you’d think? Pauline Ray investigates. Irish writer Bram Stoker has a lot to answer for. Not only has he fuelled an entire tourist industry through his blood-curdling Victorian novel, Dracula , but the tourists who visit Bran Castle are mostly unaware that the writer never set foot in the castle or even in Transylvania when he wrote his Gothic novel in 1897.
And nor did his real-life hero, Vlad the Impaler, whom Dracula is reputedly based on, ever live in the castle. READ MORE: Budapest is blowing up on socials right now, here’s why.
