User blog comment:28Hermes78/One OffWiki Question/@comment-3130944-20110523162418/@comment-2229670-20110523163130

You are right! In fact I expected more people to write Dracula's name here. Yes. It was a Wallachian prince, called Vlad Tepes (Tepes - there was an anime - Dance in Vampire Bund - Mina Tepes) Tepes, because "a trage in teapa" - to impale, so if I translate it would be Vlad the Impaler.

And the author was Bram Stoker - great book btw - he was german i think, and the books action takes place mosly in England.