Whitby Abbey looks even spookier after haunting illuminations are cast over the ruins as part of Halloween celebrations. It perhaps comes as no surprise that the creepy Benedictine abbey, which ...

In the summer of 1890, a 45-year-old Bram Stoker entered the Subscription Library in Whitby, England, and requested a specific title — The Accounts of Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia by ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Gothic ruins that inspired "Dracula" are inviting in the world's largest gathering of vampires -- or just people dressed as them -- to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the iconic horror novel's ...

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 ...

Do you love the novel “Dracula”? Have you wanted to see different locations that inspired parts of the book and where some of it took place? Now you can with the anniversary tour with Experience ...

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 ...

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 ...

Visitors have been taking the opportunity to see Whitby Abbey in a whole new light as the ruins are illuminated against the ...

Running for 70 miles, the Whitby Way winds its way from the Gothic jewel of York Minster, through wild moorland and ancient wooded valleys, right up to the coast, and the ghostly ruins of Whitby Abbey ...