Whitby of St Hilda (657–680). Part of Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula" was set in Whitby, incorporating pieces of local folklore, including the beaching of the Russian ship "Dmitri". Stoker discovered the name "Dracula" at the old public library. One scholar has suggested that Stoker chose Whitby as the site of Dracula's first appearance in England because of the Synod of Whitby, given the novel's preoccupation with timekeeping and calendar disputes. Elizabeth Gaskell set her novel "Sylvia's Lovers" partly in the town which she visited in 1859 and Lewis Carroll stayed at 5, East Terrace between July and September 1854: his first
Dracula Lives! comic "The Tomb of Dracula", the continuities of the two titles occasionally overlapped, with storylines weaving between the two. Most of the time, however, the stories in "Dracula Lives!" were standalone Dracula tales by various creative teams. Later issues of "Dracula Lives!" featured a serialized adaptation of the original Bram Stoker novel, written by Roy Thomas and drawn by Dick Giordano. Copyrighted as simply "Dracula Lives!" and commonly known by its trademarked cover title, "Dracula Lives!", the magazine ran 13 issues from 1973 to 1975. With sister titles including "Monsters Unleashed", "Tales of the Zombie" and "Vampire Tales", it was