many historians have implied that stoker's fictional dracula was inspired by vlad lll, and some have even gone as far as to suggest that vlad himself drank human blood. in their book about the simliarrities between stoker's dracula and vlad lll "in search of dracula" (mariner,1994) florescu and mcnally cite a 15th century german poem that paints vlad as a bloos drinker. the poem suggests that vald liked to dine among his victim, dipping his bread in their blood, the authors wrote.