The real-life horrors that haunted Dracula:

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Deadly missions against Nazis. Witnessing the last death by guillotine. Extraordinary past that turned Christopher Lee into cinema's seductive Prince of Darkness 

For the late Sir Christopher Lee, horror was not just something he portrayed so memorably in the movies, it was something that he had repeatedly witnessed in real life.

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Christopher Lee, pictured, served with distinction during the Second World War with special forces