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From: Yorkshire Post
Date: 20061023
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Former Editor of Yorkshire Post once owned battered table 'Bram Stoker used to pen vampire tale'

Mark Branagan

IT was left to rot in a garden for years, then lay forgotten in a house and very nearly ended up on a bonfire.

But the battered writing desk which once stood in the former Leeds home of an Editor of the Yorkshire Post may now go down in literary history as the place where Bram Stoker wrote Dracula.

Whitby has always been Yorkshire's main stop on the Stoker trail since he not only imagined the novel there but also featured Whitby Abbey and other sights in the opening chapters.

But ...

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