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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20071121
Author:ROBERT RITCHIE

1 BRAM STOKER:

In August 1895, Stoker wrote the opening chapters of Dracula in the Kilmarnock Arms Hotel at Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire. The arch- vampire's Transylvanian lair was inspired by the nearby, precipitously cliff-topping Slains Castle, now a roofless skeleton. Stoker holidayed in Cruden Bay and later in a cottage in the fishing village of Whinnyfold, setting several stories in the area, until his death in 1912.

2 MARY SHELLEY:

Surely Frankenstein's monster can't claim, along with Dracula, a Scottish ancestry? Mary Godwin made several visits (1812-4) to a friend of her father in ...

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