Dracula

Author/Guide: Bram Stoker

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1890s: Everybody knows the name Dracula, but do you know the real story?

ISBN: 978-0141439846
Genre: Horror

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What you need to know before your trail

Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help his client, a man named Count Dracula, to purchase a London house. This client however is no ordinary man and as he looks around the house, he makes some frightening discoveries.

Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in Whitby, Yorkshire, a ship runs aground. There are no crew on board. Then a woman, Lucy Westenra is found, who then succumbs to a mysterious, wasting illness, her blood drained away.

Be prepared for a very dark journey into a very dark dark world.

Locations

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Romania - Transylvania
A: Bran Castle

Travel Guide

A novel of contrasts where locations are concerned. From the cold dark Transylvania to the small, quaint fishing village of Whitby.

Transylvania

The story starts in Transylvania and the home of the man who must be the most well known character in gothic and horror fiction.

A castle on a hill, the dark imposing castle, the isolation and fear of the unknown. A lone man comes to visit…

Castle Bran – perhaps the most iconic place associated with Dracula is a must see!

Whitby – Dracula’s Whitby

This is where the real horror unfolds as the setting’s innocence and the many narrow cobbled streets reveal a much darker underbelly. From a tragic shipwreck comes horror.

Whitby Abbey is said to have been a major inspiration for the novel as well as the tombstones in the graveyards.

The harbour is where it all starts – the shipwreck brings death and destruction in this case.
The tourist office in Whitby has had many requests over the years as to where Dracula’s gravestone is. Many people still search St Mary’s Church though….