yesterday i visited Draculas Castle
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:50 pmyesterday i ventured up the East Coast of England, from my home town of Kingston upon Hull, i visited the ruins of Whitby Abbey (built in 637 AD).
heres a few pics and a bit of info about Bram stokers DRACULA
It was into Whitby harbor that Bram Stoker sailed in 1890.
He had been working on a novel inspired by Hungarian adventurer Arminius Vambery who had told Stoker, eastern European tales of the blood-hungry living dead.
Stoker stayed at a small inn on the river. Every evening at dusk the local pigeons would sit on the window ledge and tap mindlessly at their reflections in the glass. Stoker incorporated this sound into his novel as Dracula tapping with long, sharp nails on windows, demanding entrance.
Whitby proved to be the perfect setting for Stoker to derive some of the more intriguing details for his book.
Stoker stayed at a small inn on the river. Every evening at dusk the local pigeons would sit on the window ledge and tap mindlessly at their reflections in the glass. Stoker incorporated this sound into his novel as Dracula tapping with long, sharp nails on windows, demanding entrance.
The bats nesting in the stable behind the inn lent another aspect to Stoker’s main character: his ability to shape-shift into not only bats, but also black dogs and mist.
The townspeople of Whitby told Stoker a true story, of how a ship was shipwrecked whilst carrying a cargo of coffins with corpses inside them, and how one morning they discovered the bodies in various stages of decomposition scattered along the beach.
Stoker eagerly incorporated the blood-chilling tale into his novel by having Dracula shipwrecked off the Whitby coast.
Hope you enjoyed my little trip
heres a few pics and a bit of info about Bram stokers DRACULA
It was into Whitby harbor that Bram Stoker sailed in 1890.
He had been working on a novel inspired by Hungarian adventurer Arminius Vambery who had told Stoker, eastern European tales of the blood-hungry living dead.
Stoker stayed at a small inn on the river. Every evening at dusk the local pigeons would sit on the window ledge and tap mindlessly at their reflections in the glass. Stoker incorporated this sound into his novel as Dracula tapping with long, sharp nails on windows, demanding entrance.
Whitby proved to be the perfect setting for Stoker to derive some of the more intriguing details for his book.
Stoker stayed at a small inn on the river. Every evening at dusk the local pigeons would sit on the window ledge and tap mindlessly at their reflections in the glass. Stoker incorporated this sound into his novel as Dracula tapping with long, sharp nails on windows, demanding entrance.
The bats nesting in the stable behind the inn lent another aspect to Stoker’s main character: his ability to shape-shift into not only bats, but also black dogs and mist.
The townspeople of Whitby told Stoker a true story, of how a ship was shipwrecked whilst carrying a cargo of coffins with corpses inside them, and how one morning they discovered the bodies in various stages of decomposition scattered along the beach.
Stoker eagerly incorporated the blood-chilling tale into his novel by having Dracula shipwrecked off the Whitby coast.
Hope you enjoyed my little trip
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