Visum Et Repertum

How it was continued

Although the last of the Bassarabs, Prince Constantine, died in 1658, the memory of the viciousness and pure evil of the family endured in legend. The simple folk of Moldavia, Wallachia, and Transylvania, lived in constant terror of the vampyr, the ghosts of men like Vlad, whose bloodlust was what kept them alive even after their time on this world had expired. It was difficult for outsiders to understand the depth of this fear, ingrown to the region, without firsthand experience of its manifestation. As the region passed from one political regime to another, the people went about their lives steeped in the past, permanently stunted in their psychic growth by the trauma of the rule of Vlad the Impaler. After Dracula's death, books on his exploits were circulated widely in Europe, their sales and popularity for a while rivalling even that of the Bible.

 

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