Dracula - Vlad the Impaler
You will also find information on Princess Eleonore von Schwarzenberg The VAMPIRE PRINCESS and other noted Vampires and Medieval Serial merders.
Dracula was written by Bram Stoker who drew on Prince Vlad's nastier side.Prince Vlad held the Order of Dracul (Dracul means Dragon) and his seal has a dragon impressed on it.
This website also has much information on Vampires and even a link to a modern-day vampire's blog !
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Not Just Dracula - Vampires too !
The Vampire Princess even had a recent movie made about her.
- Vlad The Impaler
- Since the discovery of the Vampire Princess
- Scary Erotic Lady Vampire- to get this poster -just click on it !
- Vampire Princess Discovered THIS IS REAL !!
- One of the Vampires Discovered in Bohemia ...
- Dracula from eBay
- Bram Stoker
- Dracula at a Glance
- Featured Poster of the Week
- Your Favourite Vampire Movie ...
- Do You Believe in Dracula ?
- Dracula Videos
- Vampire Movies
- Why are we fascinated by Dracula
- Van Helsing
- The VAMPIRE TAROT
- Great Dracula stuff from Amazon
- Books on Vampires
- Dracula by Copola - You can get it from Allposters
- Quick, what do you think of Dracula?
- Dracula Video
- Anne Rice Vampire Books
- Three reasons to love Dracula
- What the Well Dressed Vampire is wearing this year ...
- Dracula by Bela Lugosi Poster from Allposters
- Saucy Dracula
- Tell us Your favourite Dracua Story !
- Dracula on Flickr
- P.S. If you buy something from this page...
- Vote for your favorite Dracula stuff
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer
- More Vampires !
- Dracula on eBay (oh the shame of it .. to come to this !)
- Modern Day Vampires
- Dracula Links
- Elizabeth Bathory
- Vampire Pictures
- Gilles de Rais
- Nosferatu - the Vampire
- What's YOUR Vampire name ?
- Castelvania
- Gothic Vampire and Other Pictures
- French Vampires ooh La La ..bite !
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Vlad The Impaler
Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (c. 1431 ? December 1476), more commonly known as the Impaler (Romanian: Vlad ?epe? ) or Dracula, was a three-time voivode of Wallachia, ruling mainly from 1456 to 1462.
Historically Vlad is best known for his independent policy towards the Ottoman Empire, the expansionism of which he resisted[http://www.romaniatourism.com/dracula.html Count Dracula's Legend] and for the exceedingly cruel punishment he imposed.Vlad III (ruler of Walachia)
In the English-speaking world Vlad III is perhaps most commonly known for inspiring the name of the vampire in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.Dracula
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Eleonore von Schwarzenberg in the Medieval Town of Krumau in Bohemia
For the first time, researchers have found proof that the stories of vampires spread in Europe in first half of the XVIIIe century had a real basis.Yes that's right there really WERE VAMPIRES !
This is about Princess Eleonore von Schwarzenberg (1682-1741)
She was sensitive to daylight and only left her castle at night - secretly ...
During an inquiry into a possible ancestor of Dracula. In the small medieval city of Krumau, in Bohemia, a team made up archaeologists, historians and medical examiners discovered and examined three corpses buried in a South-Western direction, and not East-West, as is normal in Christian burials in that region.There were a total of 15 skeletons found.
Parts of three skeletons were weighed down by stones, the head of the one of them was separated from the trunk and lies between the legs, a stone in the mouth, the hands are bound by a rosary. This was the traditional way to dispose of Vampires in Central Europe.
In the 18th Century there was a HUGE Vampire hunt going on throughout Europe and it was from this that our current belief in Vampires exists.
People throughout Germany,Austria and Cezchoslvakia even went as far as digging up people from graveyards to check if they were vampires.
If they looked healthy and not decomposed or if the fingernails and hair had grown,this was taken as a sign that the poor unfortunate was a vampire and they were burned on a bonfire in the graveyard.
Recent research shows that post mortem changes in bodies show these changes naturally and gases produced in the body can make the body move - the nails and hair look like they are growing but actually its the skin that is shrinking.
This was listed in Magia posthuma, a treaty on the vampires published little after 1700.
This was of course the traditional way of binding the corpse of a Vampire so that it could not rise from the Grave.
Additionaly each body had been pierced with a wooden stake - as was the traditional method of preventing a vampire from rising to suck the blood of the living.
Following the discover of the tomb of the Princess was is the beginning of an amazing Historical and Forensic investigation, which took scientists to the files in the Library of the castle.
After extesive reearch, Rainer Köppl, who is a specialist in the history of the media and the vampires, discovered there the existence of a mysterious female figure, Eleonore von Schwarzenberg.
Could She have been the original of the female vampire that Bram Stoker placed in the first chapter of his Dracula, before removing these first pages at the time of the publication of the book in London in 1897? (Not in the final published editions ..)Which raises the question of why Stoker removed an excellent character from his book - or was it fear of retribution from her family ?
Remains of the Princess Eleonore von Schwarzenberg of Krumau, in any case, make quite worrying discoveries that include very unusual deaths and medical experiments,a mysterious disease, and other stange discoveries in the higher realms of the nobility of Bohemia.
Eleonore was very ill in the latter part of her life and she was rich - very rich.
She was also a heavy smoker ! (tobacco at that time was used as a medicine and was incredibly expensive).
However in an effort to be cured of her ailment she invited the most famous Alchemists and Occultists of the time to her Castle.
They held regular Occult and Spiritualist seances and eventually in an effort to cure her barrenness, she was advised to drink the milk of Wolves.
She had built a Wolf Kennel and the Wolves were milked daily for her.
She had the beautiful Baroque Theatre of Krumau built and Krumau became a real centre of learning with meeting of almost every leading light in the Sciences and Arts.
The disaster struck. In 1732 Prince Adam Franz Karl Eusebius of Schwarzenburg was accidentally shot while hunting with the Emporer Karl VI. Eleonore devoted herself to building up the industry and economy of the region with mines,glassworks,wood and breweries.
Presumably the wolves howling at night upset the villagers.She still drank the Wolf milk every day believing it would make her fertile.
Her death is a mystery and not recorded but her autopsy showed she actually died of cervical cancer.
But she still had a stake through her heart when she was recently uncovered.
Sadly she was mutilated after death with the stake and removal of her head ... She was buried in a cement cage. It remains to be seen. - but WHY was her head cut off - was it just the pack of wolves she kept or was there a darker, sinister explanation ?
Here are pictures from the Tomb.....
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The Irishman who Made Dracula Famous ! (Or Infamous !!)
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 ? 20 April 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned.
Dracula at a Glance
Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula.
Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of letters, diary entries, ships' logs, etc. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and conservative sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent...
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Vampire Movies
Vampire films have been a staple since the silent days, so much so that the depiction of vampires in popular culture is strongly based upon their depiction in movies throughout the years. The most popular cinematic adaptation of vampire fiction has been from Bram Stoker's Dracula, with over 170 versions to date. Running a distant second are adaptations of Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu. The legend of Elizabeth Báthory, the "Blood Countess" has also been an influence. By 2005, Dracula had been the subject of more films than any other fictional character.
Why are we fascinated by Dracula
After all he was a really unpleasant Prince
The bitng,the drawing of blood somehow simulates extreme passion to some people.. and there are many people even today who say they are vampires and have even drunk blood live on tv.
The act of biting itself is really the ultimate invasion of another persons body and moviemakers have let it rip (so to say !)
Many of the movies made have minor simulated sex and Hammer Films in particular was noted for its 60's films featuring a host of exceptionally well-endowed beauties heaving away at their scantily clad bosoms while Dracula nibbled hungrily at their necks. Comics and magazines feature the dark side heavily just pre-halloween and most cities have troupes of scantily-clad young ladies doing things on the streets they wouldn't dream of doing otherwise. Vampirism seems to loosen the inhibitions and I'm sure a university somewhere would like to pay me to explore the subject in some depth !
So we have a scary subject that tittilates and explores not only peoples fears but also their secret desires ... interesting!
Van Helsing
Great Flying Vampire sequences and genuine thriller.
You'll Love it !
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Quite simply it's IMHO the best non-traditional vampire with realstic medieval backgrounds and good acting.
Real edge-of-your-seat stuff.
Its a movie you will watch again and again.
It is not a rehash of the traditional story but more of an action movie and I really liked it .
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Gothic Tarot of Vampires (English and Spanish Edition)
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Three reasons to love Dracula
1 - He'll be round if you don't !2 - The mainstay of a whole generation of Horror Movies
3- The main character inspiring hundreds of books and thousands of Article about the Undead
But seriously, bram Stoker was inspired by the story of Vlad III known as Vlad The Impaler - a very nasty man indeed - but something of a hero in Wallachia where he fought very bravely against the Turks (Ottoman Empire)
To inspire fear Vlad had a very unpleasant habit of impaling his captives - and anyone else who upset him !
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One of the Finest of all Movie Draculas
Saucy Dracula
The blood-sucking Prince has now been used as an excuse to show lusty ladies cavorting in many countries..
Tell us Your favourite Dracua Story !
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- kellb kellb Aug 21, 2008 @ 11:18 am
- Great lens, really enjoyed reading it.
I'm gonna have to get some work done on mine.
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- Jay_Gumbs Jay_Gumbs Mar 22, 2008 @ 6:49 pm
- Excellent work. I like vampire movies and the legend of Dracula is fascinating to me.
My vampire name is Uriel de Pompadour...lol
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- Awesome lens!
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- JoeTedesco JoeTedesco Jan 25, 2008 @ 6:35 am
- Anne Rice's books are still (in my opinion) the best vampire books out there. They make you feel that it's happening out there some where...maybe Louisiana? Excellent lens.
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- fotos4web fotos4web Dec 9, 2007 @ 11:15 am
- I've always wanted to got to Romania ..
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- Welcome to my group on Everything Romanian! I've rated this great lens 5 stars ... nice to see another lens on Dracula--hope you've checked out mine as well. What an interesting person he was/is! Regards.
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer
College Girl Fights Vampires .. Wins (mostly !)
In true heroic tradition, an American College girl finds she is destined to be a dDefender of the World against Vampires. While the series sounds trite and superficial its actually pretty good with lots of action and a "Angel" who has turned from the Dark Side (usually !) Read it - its fun !
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Modern Day Vampires
There are still quite a few vampires around today - from the self confessed blood-drinkers you see on late night talk shows to the rumoured Vampire of Highgate Cemetery in North London the line still continues.A Modern Vampire's Blog follows this section and I think you'll find it fascinating !
http://modernvampire.blogspot.com/
In times gone bye, sufferers of porphyia and albinoism were alleged to be vampires (now of course we know better) but it certainly is a FACT that Vampires still exist in our midst.
I'm still researching on Vampires and what I find will be added to this website.
Dracula Links
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- Vlad Dracula Biography
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- HTML formatted text of Stoker's novel, with a link to a strictly text version.
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- The BBC website for Dracula, starring Marc Warren in the title role.
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- National gathering of vampire enthusiasts, held in a nightclub setting. Features live bands, DJs, vendors and general information.
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- A new musical by Joerg Witzsch. A surprising view and astonishing different approach to Bram Stokers novel.
- Castle Dracula - Horror Movie Resource Site.
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- Dracula's Daughter (1936)
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- Dracula cerca sangue di vergine... e morì di sete!!! (1974)
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- Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
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- Dracula (1958)
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- Scars of Dracula (1970)
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- A visit to Dracula's castle in Romania- Travel - LATimes.com
- I spot a water well in the center of the courtyard. A metal grate bolted over its opening prevents adventurers from further tunnel exploration.
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- The Transylvanian Society of Dracula is a non-profit, cultural-historical organization specializing in two main areas of interest. ...
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Elizabeth Bathory
Said to have regularly bathed in the blood of virgins
This was to preserve her beauty but it was truly horrific.
Together with Gilles de Rais they were two of the other most famous bloodthirsty serial kilers of medieval times.
Countess Elizabeth Báthory (Báthory Erzsébet in Hungarian, Al?beta Bátoriová in Slovak, Al?b?ta Báthoryová in Czech, El?bieta Batory in Polish, August 7, 1560 ? August 21, 1614) was a countess from the renowned Báthory family. She is possibly the most prolific female serial killer in history and is remembered as the "Blood Countess" and as the "Bloody Lady of ?achtice", after the castle near Trencsén (today Tren?ín) in the Kingdom of Hungary, (today's Slovakia), where she spent most of her adult life.
After her husband's death, she and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls and young women, with one witness attributing to them over 600 victims, though the number for which she was convicted was 80."Countess Elizabeth Bathory - The Blood Countess." The Crime Library. In 1610, she was imprisoned in the Csejte Castle, where she remained bricked in a set of rooms until her death four years later.
The case has led to legendary accounts of the Countess bathing in the blood of virgins in order to retain her youth and subsequently also to comparisons with Vlad III the Impaler of Wallachia, on whom the fictional Count Dracula is partly based, and to modern nicknames of the Blood Countess and Countess Dracula.
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Gilles de Rais
A fairly nasty piece of work, Gilles de Rais specialised in killing young children.He took great advantage of his nobility and presumed he was invulnerable to the law. Fortunately he was wrong.Here is Wikipedia's take on him:
Gilles de Rais, Seigneur and Baron de Retz (1404 - 1440), was a Breton knight, the companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc, and a Marshal of France, but is best known as a prolific serial killer of children. He was born in late 1404 to Guy de Laval and Marie de Craon, but grew up under the tutelage of his maternal grandfather Jean de Craon following the deaths of his parents in 1415. De Rais' fortunes increased substantially with his marriage in 1420 to the wealthy Catherine de Thouars, and gifts of money granted him following the War of the Breton Succession. From 1427 to 1435, Rais served as a commander in the Royal Army, and in 1429 fought beside Joan of Arc in some of the campaigns waged against the English and their Burgundian allies during the Hundred Years War. In 1434-35, he retired from military life, dabbled in the occult, and depleted his wealth by staging an extravagant theatrical spectacle of his own composition.
Sometime between spring 1432 and spring 1433, the first child-murder occurred and was followed by similar crimes. The victims may have numbered in the hundreds. In 1440, Rais reacted violently in a dispute with a clergyman and the church conducted an investigation in which his crimes were brought to light. At his trial, the parents of missing children in the surrounding area and Rais's own accomplices-in-crime testified against him. The ecclesiastical court excommunicated him and the secular court condemned him, although the church reversed his excommunication when he confessed and repented shortly before his death. He was executed by hanging at Nantes on 26 October 1440.
Conspiracy theories involving the church in the death of Rais and speculation regarding witchcraft persecution have been put forth but without considerable support, especially by Aleister Crowley. Rais has had some cultural impact and is one among several candidates believed to be the inspiration for the 1697 fairy tale Bluebeard by Charles Perrault. His life is the subject of several modern novels, and the subject of various rock bands albums and songs.
Nosferatu - the Vampire
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What's YOUR Vampire name ?
This website will show you !
Just type in your name and you get something like this :Me (Keith Jones)Solomon Darling
Known in some parts of the world as:
Boreas of Sewer Rats
The Great Archives Record:
This one sinks low and is prosperous. Breeding many times over.
I tried putting in some famous politicians and movie stars & singers and got hilarious results !
Just try it for yourself in the links section below - great fun - put your friends names in too !
Its just for fun folks !
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Castelvania
Vampire Game in the Grand Guignol style
OK - It's a Slasher Game !
Good fun though if you don't mind killing Vampires....
Here's what wikipedia has to say about it -
Castlevania is a video game series created and developed by Konami. The series debuted in Japan on September 26, 1986 with the release of Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles Opening Movie
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* Konami translation by Ken Ogasawara: Dracula, lord of darkness, master of the devil's castle, walks among us. for the Family Computer Disk System (FDS), followed by an alternate version for the MSX 2 platform on October 30. Although the MSX 2 port (localized in Europe and Brazil as Vampire Killer) was released first outside of Japan, the series did not receive wide attention outside of Japan until the FDS version was ported to cartridge format for the Nintendo Entertainment System and localized for North American and European releases of Castlevania in 1987. The series soon became a recognized landmark in the design of action platforming games.
The Castlevania titles have been released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, MSX 2, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo 64, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Wii, Sega Mega Drive, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, Xbox, Xbox 360, PC Engine, Commodore 64, Sharp X68000, Commodore Amiga, DOS and Microsoft Windows. It has also been released for Pocket PCs, and mobile phones.http://classic.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=27053http://www.konamimobile.com/gamedetail.aspx?rkw=castle
Gothic Vampire and Other Pictures
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It sometimes includes Graphic Rough Sex (thats why you have to go there to see the pictures..follow Room Service...)
Don't say I didn't warn you...
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French Vampires are a bit on the naughty side....
www.google.fr and do a images search for sexy vampire ..... naughty but nice ..mostly
- French Vampire Museum
- This site is all about vampires with sections on all the major vampires like Dracula Elizabeth de Bathory etc. It is in French though but really interesting if you have even a smattering of French
(I love it when French Girls Smatter don't you ?) - French Vampire & Gothic Store
- More Gothick Goodies than you can shake a blood-bag at !
Includes Absinthe accessories -you know what they say...
Absinthe makes the heart grow stronger... - A Cabinet of Curiosities
- I LOVE cabinets of curiosities - this one includes a German Vampire Princess which I translated (badly ) above..
and LOTS of monsters,horrid pictures and oddities - you'll LOVE IT ! - Shan't tell You !
- But its worth going to if you are interested in Vampires !OK - Its a WHOLE VAMPIRE TOWN in Graphics - my rating 5 ***** don't miss it !
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Bela Lugosi
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Ah, Bela Lugosi cast as Dracula -- what perfect typecasting as to me Bela Lugosi is and was the best Dracula of all time. Does he NOT scare you too? He scared me silly when I was a child and still does! Today I personally will NOT watch...
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Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series
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If you love a good mystery and a touch of the supernatural, Anita Blake may just be a great series for you. The Anita Blake novels feature Anita as a hard-boiled detective with a twist. The crimes she solves deal with the preternatural and the super...
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Jack The Ripper
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Jack The Ripper was a terrible murderer who preyed on prostitutes in the Whitechapel area of London. One of London's greatest gruesome mysteries is still who was Jack The Ripper ? Was it James Maybrick the Middle class London Gent - or a Roy...
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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I remember my first time at "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". I went with a bunch of friends who had all already been and they took great care of me. It was the best time ever, I think I smiled for two days. The audience de...
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BIZARRE BOOKS
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On behalf of the Bizarre Book of the Month Club, I would like to welcome you to a curious collection of odds and sods. These unusual tomes can frequently be found in book bins marked "discounts", "discards", or "dead-giveaways". So, pull up a chair, pu...
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Vampire Fantasy Posters and Art Prints
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Vampires are unique in that they can be sensually sweet while at the same time, sinister and quite deadly. If you find the vampire's blood-thirsty kiss sweetly sinister and eternally intriguing why not have a peek at my...
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Jack The Ripper
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Jack The Ripper was a terrible murderer who preyed on prostitutes in the Whitechapel area of London. One of London's greatest gruesome mysteries is still who was Jack The Ripper ? Was it James Maybrick the Middle class London Gent - or a Roy...
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10 Best Vampire Movies
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This lens is dedicated to a top 10 vampire movies list, and focuses on the variety of extremely different movies that all fall under the basic genre of "vampire films." This is a marathon meant to show the wide variety and differing a...
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