Canadian writer Elisabeth Miller with her book "Dracula, sense and nonsense" May 25 launched during the second World Dracula Congress in Poiana Brasov, southern Transylvania. The congress has drawn an odd crowd of scholars and artists from Romania and around the globe out to dissect the link between the vampire legend based on Irish novelist Bram Stoker's "Count Dracula" and blood-curdling local stories spawned by medieval national hero Vlad Tepes Dracula.

RS/FMS