In the seaside town that inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula, strange goings-on are nothing new. Every Halloween sees Whitby invaded by hundreds of goths walking the streets dressed as everything from ...

Sitting gallantly on a cliff top, the gothic ruins of Whitby Abbey tower over the North Yorkshire seaside town; a place which has inspired some literary greats. Visitors trek up 199 steps to the ...

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A gathering of blood-sucking fans took a “bite” out of the world records. People gathering at Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire in the United Kingdom on Thursday broke the record for the largest ...

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 ...

Yesterday, in a communal effort to find a reason to wear black capes and corpse paint on a pleasant late spring evening, nearly 1,400 people defied proper vampire logic and flocked to a house of God ...

Renowned for its dramatic abbey ruins on the cliffs, busy fishing harbour and famous literary heritage, this historic town is a jewel on the North Yorkshire coast. Just over a half-hour drive north of ...