In another installment of our “Evil Dudes in History” we explore the history and legend of the Wallachian voivod Vlad Tepes, the inspiration for the most famous vampire of all time. Plus: Which is the lesser of two evils: being impaled Vlad style, or being left to die of exposure on the top of a mountain as an Incan sacrifice?
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022-Die Strippen haben sich wieder beruhigt. | Audioponies
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Caustic Soda: Vlad the Impaler
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John Landis: Monsters in the Movies
Elvis Mitchell talks to director John Landis about his new book, Monsters in the Movies.
http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/tt/tt120118john_landis_monsters
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Mondo Diablo Episode 221: Tepes in a Teapot
The life and times of Vlad "Dracula" Tepes, the Impaler, Turk-destroyer extraordinaire.
Tagged with halloween dracula vlad tepes impaler ottoman empire wallachia
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Mondo Diablo Episode 219: Gloomy Sunday and; Is THIS the real Erzsébet Báthory?
Several versions of a 30’s Hungarian "Suicide Song," "Gloomy Sunday, flank the Aliens Abduct Bigfoot Network’s (A&E’s) "The Most Evil Women in History: Elizabeth Bathory. But was she what they said she was, and, what did they even say?
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Mondo Diablo Episode 218: The Blood Countess Part 2
Part 2 of "Nightfall’s" dramatization of the legend of Elizabeth Bathory, the Blood Countess.
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Mondo Diablo Episode 217: The Blood Countess Part 1
Elizabeth (Erzsébet) Báthory was known as The Blood Countess because of her sadistic abuse of servants and probably others in her quest for youth and beauty, and probably sexual thrill. She was a countess in Transylvania in the late 16th/early 17th century during the time when nobility was considered to be a species apart from mere humans.
The Blood Countess radioplay on Nightfall, a CBC Toronto production, was produced in 1980.
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Dracula’s Guest - Bram Stoker