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DRACULA. A name of horror, depravity, and the darkest sensuality.
Yet the real Dracula was just as alluring, just as terrifying, his story not of a monster but of a manand a contradiction. For the one they called The Devils Son was both tyrant and lawgiver, crusader and mass slaughterer, torturer and hero, lover and murderer.
His tale is told by those who knew him best. The only woman he ever loved and whom he has to sacrifice. His closest comrade and traitor. And his priest, betraying the secrets of the confessional to reveal the mind of the man history would forever remember as TepesThe Impaler.
But Vlads actions defy such labels. His extraordinary life burns with passion, taking him from his years as hostage to the Turk, through torture, battle, triumph, and betrayal, ultimately to a last crusadethere perhaps, beneath the twin banners of the Dragon and the Cross, to find redemption for his innumerable sins.
Copyright 2009, 2011 by C.C. Humphreys
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The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious and used fictitiously. Apart from well-known historical figures, any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended by the author.
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Originally published in London in 2009 by Orion Books.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Humphreys, C. C. (Chris C.)
Vlad : the last confession / C.C. Humphreys.
p. cm.
Originally published in London in 2009 by Orion BooksT.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, 1430 or 31-1476 or 7Fiction. 2. WallachiaKings and rulersFiction. 3. WallachiaHistoryFiction. I. Title.
PR9199.4.H85V53 2011
813.6dc22
2010050908
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THE DRACULESTI
Vlad DraculThe Dragon
The Dragons Sons:
Mircea Dracula
Vlad Dracula
Radu Dracula
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THE WITNESSES
Ion Tremblac
Ilona Ferenc
Brother Vasilie, the Hermit
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HEARING THE LAST CONFESSION
Petru Iordache, Spatar of Poenari Castle
Janos Horvathy, Count of Pecs
Cardinal Domenico Grimani, Papal Legate
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AT THE TURKISH COURT
Hamza agha, later Hamza pasha
Murad Han, Sultan of Rum
His son, Mehmet Celebi, soon to be Fatih or The Conqueror
Abdulraschid, his favorite
Hibah, mistress of concubines
Tarub, maid
Abdulkarim, or Sweyn the Swede, janissary
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THE HOSTAGES AT EDIRNE
The Mardic Brothers, Serbian
Constantin, Bosnian
Zoran, Croatian
Petre, Transylvanian
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AT TOKAT
Abdul-Mahir, torturer
Wadi, torturer
Samuil, the Christian martyr
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THE WALLACHIAN BOYARS
Albu cel Mare (The Great)
Udriste
Codrea, vornic (judge)
Turcul
Gales
Buriu, spatar, commander of cavalry
Dobrita
Cazan, Draculs logofat, or chancellor
The Metropolitan, head of the Orthodox Church in Wallachia
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DRACULAS VITESJI
Black Ilie
Laughing Gregor
Stoica the Silent
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PRETENDERS TO THE WALLACHIAN THRONE
Vladislav Dan
Basarab Laiota
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OTHERS
Matthew Corvinus, the Crow, King of Hungary
Brother Vasilie, Vlads confessor
Thomas Catavolinos, Ambassador
Abdulmunsif, Ambassador
Abdulaziz, Ambassador
Mihailoglu Ali Bey, Radus army commander
Jan Jiskra, Corvinuss mercenary commander
Elisabeta, Draculas first wife
Vlad, Draculas son
Ilona Szilagy, Draculas second wife
Janos Varency, thief-taker
Roman, Moldavian
Old Kristo, gatekeeper
Hekim Yakub, physician
In the bitter winter of 1431, in the town of Sighisoara, a second son was born to Vlad Dracul, Voivode (or Warlord) of Transylvania. He was christened Vlad and, like his elder brother, was given the surname Dracul- a Son of Dracul.
In the limba Romana that they spoke Dracul meant the Dragon. Or the Devil. So Vlad Dracula was the Devils Son.
He acquired other titles in his life. Voivode of Ungro-Wallachia. Lord of Amlas and Fagaras. Brother of the secret fraternatis draconemthe Order of the Dragon. His own people called him Vlad Tepes. His Turkish enemies called him Kaziklu Bey. Both meantThe Impaler.
The land he won and lost and ruled was Wallachia, the central province of present-day Romania. Caught between the expanding Hungarian Kingdom and the all-conquering Turks, between the Crescent and the Cross, Wallachian princes were expected to be the dutiful vassal of one or the other.
Dracula had different ideas. Different ways of executing them.
Finally killed in battle in 1476, his head was chopped off and sent as a gift to his most bitter foe, Mehmet, Sultan of the Turks. It was mounted upon a stake on the walls of Constantinople. There it rotted.
A few mourned him; most did not.
I make no judgement. I leave that to those who heard his last confessionand, of course, to you, the Reader.
I am a man. Nothing human is alien to me.
Terence
Confession
Have you committed a sin? Then enter the Church and repent your sin. For here is the physician, not the judge: here one is not investigated but receives remission of sins.
ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
The Summons
Wallachia, March 1481
All was still in the forest. The last snowflakes of the sudden storm had just fallen. Everything paused.
In the crook of a copper beech sat a man. His arms were crossed, gloved hands folded into his lap, the right beneath to support the weight of the goshawk on his left. They had been there for a long time, as long as the blizzard lasted. Man and birdpart of the stillness, part of the silence. Both had their eyes closed. Neither were asleep.
They were waiting for the first sound. Something else to recognize that the storm had passed, be the first to stir before the next one arrived.
There . A twitch of nostrils, their pinkness the only color in a white world. A sniffthe first sound, followed by the faintest of breezes coming up the valley. The hare could not scent those behind her.
It was hardly a soundbut the man and the hawk both opened their eyes. The birds were red, fire-red, hell-red, because she was old, nine years old, five past her prime when she could take ten hares, a half-dozen squirrels, a brace of stoats all in a day. Not for their flesh, she didnt need so much. Not for the skins that clothed the man on whose fist she sat. For the pure pleasure of the kill.
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