Soar over the moody, skeletal ruins of Whitby Abbey, the 7th-century Benedictine monastery that stands as a stark silhouette ...

May 26 (UPI) --World Dracula Day, celebrated annually on May 26, was started by a fan group in 2012 and timed to coincide with the date that Bram Stoker's vampire novel was first published. The ...

Obsessed with the 1897 Gothic horror novel and its Hollywood permutations since childhood, the filmmaker now admits the author "was a bit of a hack." By Robert Eggers Touting its “terror, eroticism, ...

Whitby is a small seaside town on the Yorkshire coast. As with many such British towns, during the Easter bank holiday weekend it is thronged with day-trippers and holiday-makers. On a recent visit ...

WHITBY, England (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - Do you "vant" to be part of breaking a world record? If so, an abbey in Yorkshire, England, is looking for your help. Whitby Abbey, a 7th-Century monastery, was ...

Let’s say you meet a guy named Dracula. Like, actually named Dracula. It would be weird, right? That name comes with more than 125 years of connotation, a century-plus of accumulated cultural ...

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” doesn’t quite work when it comes to the title of an iconic villain, as the original name for Dracula by Bram Stoker proves. The 1897 novel was almost ...