Many Romanians are concerned about promoting their country as "Dracula Country." And with good reason! Tour guides have to contend with uninformed tourists who insist that Vlad Dracula was a vampire and that Count Dracula is buried at Snagov. This, however, can be handled by providing informed tour guides who are well versed in both Draculas. A far more serious problem, in my opinion, is a tendency on the part of some enterprising Romanians to cash in on the confusion, at the expense of their own history and culture. During my visits to Romania, I have seen a number of examples of this crass commercialism. There was the salesperson in the medieval square of Sighisoara who was selling small portraits of Vlad Tepes with fangs and who was quoted in a local paper as saying "I sell it only to foreigners Romanians would be angry." In other locations one can find questionable souvenirs. I saw a post card of Bran Castle (labelled "Dracula's Castle") complete with a small icon of a Western¬style vampire with widow's peak and black cape who is superimposed on the photograph of the castle as if welcoming unsuspecting tourists. Even worse, at Bran Castle itself I found a T¬shirt depicting Vlad Tepes with fangs extended, leaning over a bare¬breasted and willing female victim. Equally tacky is the decision of at least one tour group to offer a Halloween party at "Casa Vlad Dracul" (Vlad's birth house) in Sighisoara! Perhaps the most disturbing was that during a recent visit (May 1998), I noticed in the courtyard outside Casa Vlad Dracul (in Sighisoara) a life¬sized model of Vlad where tourists were invited to have their "bloody photo taken." Such promotion flies in the face of both history and culture, and serves only to exacerbate the resentment that many Romanians already feel about Dracula¬centred tourism.