There is something about Bran that seems made for stories. The villages are scattered across the folds of the mountains beneath Bucegi and Piatra Craiului, with forests pressing close around them and weather that can change the entire character of the landscape in an afternoon. It is easy to understand why outsiders arrived here and saw the perfect setting for vampires, but Dracula is not the folklore of Bran. Long before anyone came searching for a fictional count, the peopl