Bloodline

Bram Stoker's Dracula has captivated readers for well over a century, but many of them could not imagine that the truth behind the myth was, if anything, more macabre than Stoker's imagination.DRACULA'S FAMILY TREE revisits the exploits of Radu Florescu and Raymond McNally, two Boston professors whose research 30 years ago exposed the truth about the historic figure who inspired Dracula -- Vlad Tepes, also known as Vlad the Impaler for his monumentally sadistic ways. Here, Florescu shares the incredible tales from their search that did not make the headlines: how the hunt for Vlad led to a death, strange diseases, and illness; how key documents repeatedly vanished; and how Vlad's decapitated body (his head was sent to the Sultan in Istanbul by Ottoman invaders) disintegrated when his tomb was opened. Follow the strange search for the evil count, and see if his blood survives to this day. This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.