... from each tree branch, and he ordered that if anyone should take one of the hanging victims down, he would hang in his place. From descriptions such as these the term "the forest of the impaled" was coined. In addition to physical torture, Dracula had a predilection for various forms of moral torture such as obtaining confessions prior to punishment (he would often then have the confessors tortured anyway) to ... the classical traditions of the Gothic horror romance traditions of ghosts and rattling chains established in the eighteenth century by Ann Radcliffe, Horace Walpole, and even ...

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