Radu florescu biography of william

Historian Radu Florescu died this week.

Radu florescu biography of william hurt

Along with his colleague Raymond McNally, who passed away in , the two scholars were the first to bring the life and times of the historical Vlad Tepes to public consciousness. Their ground-breaking book, In Search of Dracula: A True History of Dracula and Vampire Legends(), forever changed the landscape of Dracula scholarship--and proved that the vampire myth could be a serious, and viable, area of study.

Seeing as I wasn't blogging back when McNally died, I thought this would be a good opportunity to honour both men, who were often as entertaining as the topics they studied.
(Pictured here is my abused, and cherished, copy of their first book.)

Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu, (Lee Pellegrini)

These two "Professors of Horror" were based out of the History Department at Boston College, and their final co-authored work, In Search of Dr.

Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, was published in It traces the history of Willia