Bram Stoker

Matthew Gibson, a leading scholar on Bram Stoker and the Gothic.

Bram Stoker scholar on Whitby's link to Dracula

Hundreds queue at Leeds Bus Station to catch £2 bus to Yorkshire coast for Whitby Goth Weekend

Hundreds queue at Leeds Bus Station to catch £2 bus to Yorkshire coast

A splendid stay awaits in this stunning Whitby hotel. Picture – supplied.

Ad Feature A splendid stay awaits in this stunning Whitby hotel

Robin Hoods Bay. (Pic credit: Marisa Cashill)

Yorkshire Coast fishing and farming village named one of the best UK getaways

199 Steps

Where to eat, explore and what to do in Whitby

Leeds City Museum. (Pic credit: James Hardisty)

The oldest museums in Yorkshire and the rich history behind them

Thousands attended the festival in Whitby this year

Whitby Goth Weekend: 17 photographs from the final day of the festival

Yvonne Cervetti and Fritz Hrynyk pictured at Whitby Goth Weekend.
Picture by Simon Hulme.

Whitby Goth Weekend: Best photographs from the second day

A fishing boat returns back to Whitby harbour. (Pic credit: Tony Johnson)

Tomorrow’s Ghosts Festival 2023: When is the Whitby goth music event?

Vampires arrive at Whitby Abbey ahead of a Guinness world record attempt las year. (Pic credit: Oli Scarff / Getty Images)

Whitby Abbey: The history of the seventh century former monastery turned abbey

Whitby Pavilion. (Pic credit: Ceri Oakes)

Tomorrow’s Ghosts Festival October 2022: Goth music event returns to Yorkshire

A projection of bats on Whitby Abbey (Photo credit: English Heritage/PA Wire)

Whitby Abbey to be illuminated with bats to mark 125 years of Dracula

Whitby Abbey illuminated. (Pic credit: Richard Ponter)

Whitby and Ripon named among scariest literary locations in the country

Young Viking warriors Elijah Harris, 8, Keira Harris, 5, and Trystan Harris, 11, from Northampton

The best pictures as scores of 'Vikings' take over Whitby Abbey

'We have to book our own breaks so popular it is just down the river with a view of the abbey.'

Residents of Whitby don’t love me for investing in property - Christa Ackroyd

A new world record has been set in Whitby for the largest gathering of people dressed as vampires to coincide with the 125th anniversary of the publication of Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula.

Vampire gathering breaks world record on spectacular night at Whitby Abbey

The legacy of the connection to Dracula has long led Whitby to be associated with all things horror, and the town hosts a thriving festival twice a year which attracted thousands of people in gothic costumes.

Plans for Yorkshire's most spooky world record attempt underway

Solo show: James Gaddas in Dracula which heads to Yorkshire on tour this week.

Week Ahead: Dracula, gaming and elephants in Yorkshire's spotlight this week

English Heritage’s property manager, Mark Williamson, is pictured at Whitby Abbey. The historic site will be at the centre of celebrations to mark the 125th anniversary this year of the first publication of Bram Stoker's classic gothic horror novel, Dracula. (Photo: Simon Hulme)

Whitby Abbey to be at centre of celebrations to mark landmark anniversary of the...

Actor James Gaddas is currently touring with his one man show of Bram Stoker’s Dracula with several Yorkshire dates.

Bram Stoker's Dracula is brought to life in a one man show

Anita Rani Picture: James Hardisty

Anita Rani revisits Scarborough and Whitby in Saturday's Ch 4's Britain by Beach
Bradford-born Anita Rani revisits childhood holiday haunts at Scarborough and Whitby in this Saturday’s episode of Channel 4’s Britain by Beach.

Family owned Rumours gift shop will be decked up for Christmas in Whitby

Ad Feature Winter escapes - how to create your magical moment on the Yorkshire Coast

St Mary's Church in Whitby, which is mentioned in Bram Stoker's novel, 'Dracula'

'Stop asking us where Dracula's grave is', Whitby church asks tourists

One of the diolphins spotted this week off Whitby's pier.

Whitby dolphins and what their presence means for marine environment – The Yorks...

Will rural Yorkshire become unplugged in the race to drive greener?

Will rural Yorkshire grind to a halt in green car revolution? – David Behrens

Staycation satisfaction by the coast is a shore thing!

A view towards Whitby Abbey through the replica whale jaw bone which replaced the original archway. Picture: James Hardisty.

How the Yorkshire Coast has inspired strange and surreal writing though history

Whitby Abbey

Whitby's connection to Dracula: BBC video from 1977 examines the link

A woman is interrupted from eating fish and chips by a greedy flock of seagulls. Picture: SWNS

How the sun could finally rob seaside gulls of their chips

Damian and Jayne Playfoot, from Leeds, in gothic attire

Whitby Goth Weekend: The first goths arrive for October 2019 festival

Whitby Goth Weekend 13th April 2019

Goths paint Whitby black for 25th anniversary festival weekend

Curator John Ashton in the Bradford Museums photo archive. Picture: Jonathan Gawthorpe

Exit, stage left... Bradford's history, frozen in time
IT was perhaps the first paparazzi photograph, and one that captured a theatrical drama the playwright had not foreseen.

Bela Lugosi was pershaps the most famous Dracula of them all.

Dacre Stoker: My life with Count Dracula

A sea fret envelops Scarborough.

Andrew Vine: Seaside's colourful characters in black

Picture by Gerard binks

Nostalgia on Tuesday: High and Mighty

Whitby Abbey is lit up in lights to celebrate Halloween.

Mother of all Halloween displays at the Whitby ruin that inspired Dracula

Donald Trump

Here's why you've never seen Donald Trump eat garlic: He's a secret vampire

Picture Post: Throwing light on Whitby’s ghostly abbey ruins

Bram Stoker

Why Bram Stoker sacked police from Dracula

TERROR TREAT: Texas Chain Saw Massacre star Gunnar Hansen will appear at HorrorCon. Picture: British Film Institute

The Sheffield sisters hosting a weekend of pure horror

A rare Grey long eared bat. Picture: Anton Alberdi/Bat Conservation Trust

Light shed on creature with something of the night about it

Dracula revisited

Whitby Abbey

Mystery of the black holes at Whitby Abbey

The netting now in place on the East Cliff below St Mary's church

‘Work will slow erosion’ near famous Whitby church

Peel checks in with profit rise

Under-the-hammer horror as anti-vampire kit for sale

How Dracula’s movie afterlife drained him of the power to chill our blood

Fangs for memory...Dracula experts pool ideas

Malcolm Barker: Weird and wonderful drawn to Whitby, like goths to a flame

Town that will not die

Council facing legal challenge on plans for Conan Doyle house

Thousands of Goths in Dracula resort for weekend of the macabre and mysterious

Thousands of Goths in Dracula resort forweekend of the macabre and mysterious

'Dracula shift' to work on swing bridge at night

Shape of fangs to come as writer gets his teeth into vampires

Peel aims to return landmark city hotel to its former glory