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Continue reading →: Turda Salt Mines, Romania“Someplace deep and dark. That’s where you’ll find vampires.” The words of the mysterious fortune teller in Cluj-Napoca followed me as I drove. In Transylvania, one place fit that description perfectly: The Salt Mines of Turda. “So it begins,” I murmured, thinking of Tolkien and Lord of the Rings. As…
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Continue reading →: The City of Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaFollowing the advice of a man dressed in a cape, I headed further north into Transylvania. I was told that the city of Cluj-Napoca had amazing culture and history. I planned to explore it all, while hunting for vampires. Corvinus, a name associated with vampire lore, has roots in this…
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Continue reading →: Alba Iulia Citadel, RomaniaI left Castle Corvinesti with questions and strange dreams of ravens perched on windowsills. I thought of Edgar Allen Poe, and I wondered if my search for vampires in Transylvania would lead to better writing, madness, death, or some state in between. I was willing to take the chance. So…
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Continue reading →: Castelul Corvinilor (Corvin Castle) Hunedoara, RomaniaThe best place to search for vampires, I was told, was to head into the western part of Transylvania and follow the ravens. Mysterious words, a dangerous quest, but I was determined to find out if vampires did exist. So, I was off to the city of Hunedoara where a…
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Continue reading →: The Trinity and the Tower of Saint Mary, Sibiu, RomaniaLeaving the Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in Sibiu, I continued my search for vampires. Church bells rang in the distance, leading me back to the center of the city. A call to mass, so I followed the crowds to the Piata Mare that had existed since the 14th century. The…
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Continue reading →: Streets of Sibiu, RomaniaThis mystical, fortified city in Transylvania inspired part of my vampire series. It was here, in the Grand Square, Piata Mare, that traveling merchants spread rumors of an undead army wandering the Carpathian Mountains. Or so my story goes. But there was another reason to cross into Transylvania and visit…
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Continue reading →: Snagov Monastery, Lake Snagov, RomaniaFollowing the trail of Vlad Tepes, I crossed the bridge to the tiny island in Snagov Lake. A curious mix of animals greeted me. I didn’t expect to find an emu on the island rumored to hold Dracula’s remains, but there it was, along with some bleating goats and some…
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Continue reading →: Bellu Cemetery, Bucharest, RomaniaPassing through the iron gates of the Șerban Vodă Cemetery, also known as Bellu Cemetery, I was instantly entranced by the domed Chapel or Capela. I wanted to explore there first, and we did, after waiting for a funeral procession to pass. Whispers of burying people alive, claw marks found…
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Continue reading →: Highgate Cemetery, London, UKWandering through the tombs at Highgate Cemetery in London, I felt the Veil. If I fell asleep under the ivy, would I wake up tangled in vines? Or would I be pulled into the underworld, never to be found in the human realm again? I had to take photographs as…
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