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Article: COUNT ON UNUSUAL AS DRACULA MUSEUM BATTY ABOUT UNDEAD PARK THE GARLIC, HOLD THE STAKES, DROP THE SILVER AND TAKE A BITE OUT OF TRANSYLVANIA LORE.(CAPITAL REGION)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- October 31, 1994
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Byline: JUDIE GLAVE Associated Press
NEW YORK Inside a landmark city building on tony Fifth Avenue is a museum brimming with enough photographs, books and bric-a-brac to curdle the blood of the most devoted fan.
Forget Michelangelo and Monet; think Bela Lugosi and Bram Stoker instead. This is the Dracula Museum.
Walk into the two-room apartment-turned-museum and come face to face with a 12-inch wax replica of the wicked Vlad Tepes, a k a Count Dracula.
The glass-covered tyrant is nestled among paintings, stamps, coins and candles of the 15th-century Romanian count who, historians claim, impaled 10,000 Turks, earning him the ...