User blog comment:Diexilius/Ho Ho Ho, motherfuckers!/@comment-4849011-20161224012851/@comment-4849011-20161225003046

I think I read it in fifth or sixth grade. It was in a children's book called Meet the Vampire by Georgess McHargue (I hope I got the name right). It told three Vlad the Impaler stories, and that was the least disturbing of the trio. I think the most famous story was the one in which he had a dinner party surrounded by impaled corpses, and one of the guests complained about the stench. Vlad ordered him to be impaled on a higher stake so he'd be above the others & wouldn't be bothered by the smell as much.