Sources
Receipts. Everything real on this site traces to something listed here.
Scope
This page lists real-world sources cited on the site's factual pages. The persona's fictional material (persona, lore, lines, scenes, timeline, cast) is original writing for the Vizlings character and has no external source — that is stated on each of those pages per the [methodology](/methodology) policy.
This page lists real-world sources cited on the site's factual pages. The persona's fictional material (persona, lore, lines, scenes, timeline, cast) is original writing for the Vizlings character and has no external source — that is stated on each of those pages per the [methodology](/methodology) policy.
Bram Stoker and Dracula
- Bram Stoker, Dracula (Archibald Constable and Company, London, 26 May 1897) — the novel; all genuine quotations on the lines page are from the standard 1897 text.
- Stoker’s working notes for Dracula — the Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia (hundreds of pages of research notes documenting his preparation).
- William Wilkinson, An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia (1820) — the source from which Stoker took the name “Dracula” and its meaning.
Folklore and the vampire before Stoker
- The 1732 Visum et Repertum — the Austrian military commission’s report on the Medveđa exhumations (the Arnold Paole case), the document that carried the word vampire across Europe.
- Dom Augustine Calmet, Traité sur les apparitions des esprits et sur les vampires (1746) — the Enlightenment compendium of vampire reports.
- Emily Gerard, “Transylvanian Superstitions” (The Nineteenth Century, July 1885) — Stoker’s key source for Transylvanian folk belief, including the word nosferatu.
- John Polidori, “The Vampyre” (1819) — the first aristocratic vampire, Lord Ruthven.
- Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla (1872) — the landmark vampire novella; a direct influence on Stoker.
Places
- Bran Castle (1377, Bran, Romania) and Poenari Citadel (Argeș County, Romania) — see castle for the documented history and the tourism framing.
- Sighișoara — documented birthplace (1431) of Vlad III; Vlad’s rule in Wallachia (not Transylvania) per standard historiography.
Film
- Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (Prana Film, 1922; dir. F. W. Murnau) — unauthorized adaptation; Florence Stoker’s lawsuit and the court’s print-destruction order are documented legal history.
- Dracula (Universal Pictures, 1931; dir. Tod Browning) — the Lugosi template.
- Horror of Dracula (Hammer Film Productions, 1958; dir. Terence Fisher) — the Lee template.
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992; dir. Francis Ford Coppola).
Image provenance
See the image captions for credits and context. Illustrated character art is a dramatization.
How to cite this site
Persona pages (persona, lore, lines, scenes, timeline, cast, themes, world, style, chat-guide, brides-persona sections): cite as original fictional writing for the Vizlings “Count Dracula” character (2026). Factual pages (mythology, stoker, transylvania, screen, castle, glossary-folklore entries): cite the original sources listed above; this site is a synthesis, not a primary source.
Source notes
This is the sources page. The policy governing what counts as canon, what counts as invention, and how uncertainty is handled is stated on the methodology page.