Whitby was chosen as the festival's host town due to its association with Dracula Thirty years since the seaside town hosted its first Goth Weekend, Whitby is still a "safe and accepting" place, say ...

Patrick Argent recounts the seaport’s unique relationship with the world-famous fictional vampire. Whitby’s formidable literature connections that notably include Caedmon, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens ...

Every October, the English seaside town of Whitby transforms into a page taken right out of a Bram Stoker novel. All types of subcultures—from goths clad in 19th-century corsets and bustles to ...

Thirty years since the seaside town hosted its first Goth Weekend, Whitby is still a "safe and accepting" place, say regular visitors to the festival. Held annually in April and October, the gothic ...