Count Orlok has powers that go far beyond that of a traditional vampire, and the reasons are buried deep within Eastern ...

Identity and the State in Romania. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2012. McNally, Raymond T., and Radu Florescu. In Search of Dracula; a True History of Dracula and Vampire Legends. Greenwich ...

While contemporary popular culture tends to point toward Transylvania as the seat and heart of the vampiric myth, most scientists today agree that the concept of the vampire came to Western ... us ...

Robert Eggers' "Nosferatu" brings the centuries-old Romanian myth back into the forefront of the cultural zeitgeist.

Someone could also be born a vampire. In Romania, the seventh child was susceptible to vampirism. Babies who were born with teeth or were covered in a caul or amniotic membrane were suspicious ...

As far as I’m concerned, Nosferatu is an elegantly macabre masterpiece that pulls all the right levers of horror and period ...