In Book Two of Dracula Chronicles, Lady Donatella Loredano is depicted in one instance wearing shoes that were so high she required the assistance of two attendants to walk safely. The images show two models of such shoes.

If your reading of Dracula Chronicles has advanced past Book One, you have come across numerous mentions of the Venetian gold coin called ducat. The attached illustration such a coin.

Tomorrow is our first full day in Venice and we shall celebrate it with a visit to the Teatro La Fenice to see Giacomo Puccini’s “La Bohème”. I have come to Venice to do research for future volumes of Dracula Chronicles and I know I owe my readers an explanation: what in the world does Venice have to do with Prince Vlad, a.k.a. Dracula?

The life of Vlad the Impaler (Dracula Chronicles) is now available at the Almere Library in the Netherlands.

Dracula Chronicles third volume, House of War, has received the following one-line, cryptic, and intriguing review from an anonymous reader: “Victor Foia knows how to write Historical fiction rivaling Mika Waltari”.

According to British writer David Hughes, Charles, Prince of Wales is a great-grandson of Dracula 16 times removed. Prince Charles himself has declared that, “I have Transylvania in my blood”.

Readers of Dracula Chronicles are familiar with Shahnameh and the fact that Vlad/Dracula used it for his lessons of Persian language, ultimately falling in love with its heroes. See how David Geffen (media billionaire) got connected with Dracula through the intermediation of related artifacts.

At first sight this African volcano looked innocuous. I knew it wasn’t sleeping, but I thought “napping” made it just as safe. So why not fly right over the crater?

Coming soon!

The way you defected from a Communist country was by finding your way to a free nation somehow and, once there, by asking for political asylum. Easy, right? You must be wondering why only a small percentage of the millions of citizens confined behind the Iron Curtain ever did it.

Coming soon! In the meantime you may explore the Dracula Chronicles Resources.

The summer of 1952 was my coming of age as a preschool Communist larva. What better place to show me and my coevals the meaning of obedience to the country rulers than a visit to Dracula’s home town of Sighisoara (Schassburg in the novel)?

If you watched Oliver Stone’s provocative TV series The Untold History of the United States, you know more about the macro events leading to the advent of the Iron Curtain than I could tell you in this blog.

Coming soon!