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 ...

The train departed King's Cross at 10:25 a.m. on July 29, 1890. Bram Stoker settled wearily into the carriage for the six-hour journey to Whitby, the fashionable and remote seaside village in North ...

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A RELATIVE of the author of the best-selling Dracula will visit a North Yorkshire seaside town as part of a trail expedition based around the horror novel. Celebrating 125 years since the publication ...

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 ...

This week marked the 125th anniversary of the timeless novel Dracula being first published on May 26, 1897. With Whitby being the epicentre of the classic, Sykes Holiday Cottages have rounded up a ...

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