This paper shows how McNally and Florescu not only mistranslated a medieval poem by Michael Beheim, but at the time of writing had access to the correct rendering created by their research partner Matei Cazacu,  With their trick, they fooled a more than one generation of Dracula scholars. In "A Day in the Field," I demonstrate that Florescu also lied in his In Search of Frankenstein (see below). Published on 26 May 2016 as World Dracula Day special.

While browsing for early comments on the publication of Dracula, I happened to find the first US serialization known so far - a newspaper publication which savvy experts had been searching for for decades. It appeared in the Chicago Inter Ocean of Spring 1899, just before the Swedish serialization of June. This report presents Bram Stoker's long-year relationship with the "Windy City"

Published on 26 May 2017 as World Dracula Day special.

Already in 2012, just after my Ultimate Dracula had been released, I took a look into the identity of Prof. Van Helsing, one of the most persistent secrets of Stoker's novel. A promising hint led me to two Amsterdam psychiatrists , who ran an internationally famous clinic for hypnotic treatment. Despite intense research, I could find no direct connection, though. What I did find, though, were hitherto undiscussed materials about Stoker's connection with Prof. Max Müller. An interesting insight into the emerging role of hypnosis during the Victorian Age. Published on 26 May 2018 as World Dracula Day special.

In this first interview with Vampirisme.com, I explained how the buzz around Powers of Darkness had triggered a new discovery: the link between the Icelandic and the Swedish version. This text also explains some of the riddles of the icelandic text, which now could be solved by comparing these confusing phrases to the Swedish. A fascinating text with details you won't find elsewhere,

I published this short article in Vampirisme.com under my own name; it was translated to French by Adrien Party. Its purpose was to launch the scoop of my discovery of the earliest American seriallization of Dracula in the Chicago newspaper Inter Ocean, May-June 1899. It was followed up by a more detailed article in English for the Word Dracula Day issue of Vamped.org.

On 2 March 2017, I returned from a trip to Asia and found Berghorn's message of 17 February , pointing to Mörkrets makter and its link with the Icelandic Dracula. I decided to help him launch his discovery and created this bulletin. As you will see, Berghorn stated that the Swedish version is longer than Dracula, not shorter; only a few days later, when I received scans from Stockholm, I was able to solve this conundrum.

Directly after the COTN Bulletin had been published, I had a conversation with Anna Margrét Björnsson of Iceland Monitor, who had interviewed me in February. She decided to set up an article, for which I provided a number of statements and illustrations. I confirmed the link with Mörkrets makter and announced further research to answer the questions I had worded about Makt myrkranna, now with respect to the Swedish version of Dracula.

In March 2017, Florin Nechita invited me to write an article for the Philological Bulletin of the Transilvania Society of Brașov. As I was just trying to get a clear sight of the making of Mörkrets makter, I produced a text on this issue, dedicating fresh research to the morphology of the two seriazations of 1899-1900. I established, among others, that in both publications, the Transylvanian part must have been printed from the same print stock. I submitted my article on 21 April 2017, but the magazine was only published in October 2017.

After publishing on the trick professors McNally and Florescu had pulled on their readers by tampering with the translation of Michael Beheim's poem , I was curious to check whether Florescu had committed a similar fraud in his book In Search of Frankenstein (1975), dealing with an alleged visit of Mary Wollstonecraft and Percy Shelly to Castle Frankenstein near the Rhine. In this book, Florescu claimed that from the outskirts of Gernsheim on the borders of the Rhine, he and his companions could "easily discern, even with the naked eye, the sinister silhuette of the two chief towers of Castle Frankenstein, profiled against the horizon and dominating the hill."

As already noticed by other photographers, this is completely impossible, unless Florescu's eyes had a three times higher seeing power than is known for human beings. With my interns Dian and Yofina, I spent a sunny day in and around Gernsheim, making photos with the Hasselblad D3 39 MP ii and the Nikon D90 under optimal conditions. I posted the annotated photos in an album on my Facebook

page, on 23 June 2016.