As you may well know, author Bram Stoker (1847-1912) based the title character of his 1897 novel Dracula on an actual human being, or should we say inhuman being.  In this website, we will try our best to make the distinction between the real and the imaginary, the facts and the fiction.  This is not an easy task, considering the amount of vampire lore which has imbibed our culture since Dracula was first published in 1897.