Giuliano de Medici and Simonetta Vespucci
Florence's Number One Couple
d. 1476
See Historical Tales: Guiliano and Simonetta
Lucretia Borgia
Daughter of Pope Alexander VI.
1480-1519
The femme fatale of the murderous, incestuous Borgia clan met her match when brother Cesare, recently transformed into a vampire, cornered her inside the Vatican.
Ivan the Terrible
Russian Tsar
1533-1584
After transformation, Ivan used his family as a personal smorgasbord, drinking the blood of his son and daughter-in-law before he was killed by palace guards.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English Romantic Poet
1792-1822
While vacationing in Italy with wife Mary and friend and fellow poet Lord Byron, Shelley decided to pay a call to the vampiric residents of a lakeside castle. The hosts, unimpressed with his reputation, drank his blood then threw him over the castle ramparts into the lake.
Nat Turner
Slave Revolt Leader
1800-1831
Turner turned his bloodlust into a full-scale insurrection by leading other transformed slaves on a hunting spree across the Virginia countryside. All told, his pack killed 50 before a local militia put an end to them.
Edgar Allen Poe
Writer
1809-1849
The Master of the Fictional Macabre met up with the real thing when he stumbled into a couple of vampires while on a bender along the Baltimore waterfront. He was later euthanized at a nearby hospital.
Rasputin
Russian mystic and advisor to Tsar Nicholas II's wife, Alexandra
d. 1916
Russian aristocrats, fearful of Rasputin's undue influence over the Tsar's wife, lured him to a vampire hideout in St. Petersburg. After transformation, the "Mad Monk" was shot, bludgeoned and thrown into the Neva River, yet he still turned up at the palace the following night, whereupon he was beheaded by the Tsar's guards.
Warren Harding
29th President of the United States
1865-1923
see Famous Cases: Who Killed Warren Harding?
Rudolph Valentino
Movie Star
1895-1926
While in New York City to promote his new movie, the Italian sex symbol was lured into a speakeasy, then set upon by a hunting pack. He managed to get back to his hotel, where he was eventually euthanized. The studio claimed his death was caused by a bleeding ulcer.
