Following in Dracula's Footsteps: Mardi Ballou Does Whitby

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Mardi climbing the 199 steps to the abbey

The mist, the fog, the one hundred ninety-nine steps up to the gloriously ruined ninth-century abbey and an ancient graveyard. No wonder Bram Stoker was inspired to bring Dracula onto English soil in this picturesque seaside town on the northeast coast, where Stoker wrote the vampire's ship foundered in rough waters...