The 1972 book <i id="mwAT4">In Search of Dracula</i> by <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/Radu_Florescu" title="Radu Florescu" id="m... by @wikipedia

The 1972 book In Search of Dracula by Radu Florescu and Raymond McNally claimed that the Count in Stoker's novel was based on Vlad III Dracula. However, according to Elizabeth Miller, Stoker borrowed only the name and "scraps of miscellaneous information" about Romanian history; further, there are no comments about Vlad III in the author's working notes.