The Vampire Was Right

There is a great scene in the novel "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova where the famed vampire Dracula (Vlad III of Wallachia) is ruminating on the Fall of Constantinople which occurred today in 1453 (OS). He refers to it as the worst day in the history of the world. He was right.

P.S. I don't read a lot of fiction and horror is not my usual genre, but the novel really was pretty entertaining.