library, which was originally near the Quayside. He tells us so at the top of a sheet of his notes taken from William Wilkinson's 'An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia' (1820). These notes contain the only reference to Dracula, the historical figure, in all of Stoker's papers.

"...there was a look of fear and horror on his face that the men said made them shudder. Poor dear old man! Perhaps he had seen Death with his dying eyes!"

'Dracula' by Bram Stoker (1897)

Stoker's Dracula is shipwrecked off the Yorkshire coast, he is actually on his way to London on the Russian schooner, Demeter. He comes ashore in the guise of a black dog and wreaks havoc on the town.

One of the characters in the novel, Mina, keepsa journal containing detailed descriptions of Whitby and those areas frequented by Dracula.

"Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby Abbey, which was sacked by the Danes, and which is the scene of part of "Marmion,"where the girl was built up in the wall. It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits; there is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows."

In 1959 Mrs Gaskell, accompanied by her daughters, visited Whitby for a summer holiday, staying at n.1 Abbey Terrace, some of the rooms of which commanded a magnificent view of the sea. The house belonged to a family named Rose, a name which Mrs Gaskell has used for two of her characters in