On the other hand, it is highly unlikely that any more than a few historians would be paying the slightest bit of attention to Vlad Dracula today, were it not for Stoker's novel and the revelations in Florescu and McNally's In Search of Dracula (1972; revised 1994). Much has been written about this, and I do not intend to pursue it here. Rather, I want to focus on how Vlad is viewed in Romania, and how many Romanians respond to the "fact" that for many Westerners, Vlad and the Count have become one.