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There will be blood as Scots stake claim to Dracula

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From: Yorkshire Post
Date: 20080709
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RESIDENTS of the Yorkshire seaside town where Bram Stoker wrote Dracula are spitting blood after owners of a Scottish castle staked a claim to be an inspiration for the story.

For more than a century Whitby has loomed large in the vampire cult where the fictional count is as real to many visitors - including the thousands of goths who descend twice a year - as the port's links with real life figures such as Captain Cook and Lewis Carroll.

Now Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire - a ruined fortress which developers want to turn into Pounds 6m holiday apartments - is also claiming a Dracula ...

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