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Images relating to Dracula and Frankenstein

Whitby Harbour at night

"On the near side, the seawall makes an elbow crooked inversely..."
Steps leading up from Whitby Harbour

"This is to my mind the nicest spot in Whitby, for it lies right over the town..."
Whitby Abbey in shadow

"It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits".
Whitby Abbey

"Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby Abbey..."
Bram Stoker

Portrait of Bram Stoker
Portrait of Mary Shelley

Author Mary Shelley, daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Shelley's manuscript of Frankenstein

Frankenstein was published in 1818
Lord Byron's house on the shores of Lake Geneva

Mary Shelley had the idea for Frankenstein whilst staying in Bryon's house in 1816.

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Classic Serial The Gothic Imagination, Dracula: Part 1

1/4 The original vampire horror story by Bram Stoker, in a new version by Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

First broadcast: 14 Oct 2012

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The Gothic Imagination

Two seminal gothic horror stories, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula

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