Genesis of a Monster Vlad III Drăcula. A warleader in a warlike time: brilliant, charismatic, pious. But what became of him? What drove him to become a creature of darkness--Bram Stoker's cruel, ambitious "Un-Dead"--and what use did he make of this power, through the centuries? More than a hundred years after the monster's death, the descendants of the survivors piece together the story--dusty old manuscripts, court reports...