Spooky scenes from Whitby Goth Weekend 2026
Photographer George Hutton captured the surreal sights and most outlandish costumes at the UK’s foremost gothic gathering
Black News 
In the summer of 1890, author Bram Stoker walked up the 199 steps to the Gothic ruins of Whitby Abbey – a medieval monastery overlooking the harbour town’s windswept headland. Gazing out to the North Sea, bats swooping around him, he took inspiration for the story he was ruminating on… the story which would become his novel, Dracula.
In 1994, just over a hundred years after Stoker wandered its narrow streets and alleyways, thehellip;
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