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WHY WE'RE COUNTING ON DRACULA; Scots tourist chiefs lay claim to legend.(Features)

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From: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date: 20010322
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Byline: MARIA CROCE

SCOTTISH tourism bosses are staking a claim to Dracula and have gone into battle for the bloodsucker with their counterparts in Yorkshire.

Aberdeen and Grampian Tourist Board chiefs say there is evidence that Bram Stoker was inspired to write about vampire Count Dracula while staying at Slains Castle by the coastal town of Cruden Bay.

The original Dracula may have lived in Transylvania, but the Stoker story was created in ...

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