The only way to kill him was with a stake steak.
(It’s about Vlad Tepesh, aka Vlad III, aka Vlad Drăculea, aka Vlad the Impaler, a Romanian ruler who is said to have been the inspiration for the fictional Dracula. He was described as “a demented psychopath, a sadist, a gruesome murderer, a masochist” – a real party animal, but apparently a healthy eater.)