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  • New Blood: Stoker’s Undying Legacy: Gavin Collinson, Amanda Mason, and Leticia Lentini

    Whitby Mission & Seafarers Centre Haggersgate, Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    Bram Stoker’s legacy on the world is immense, from literature to TV and film. Join author and cultural historian, Gavin Collinson, who worked on the BBC’s 1977 version of Dracula, and more recently has written extensively for the BBC, BFI, and Hammer Films on gothic horror. A crime writer, his latest is his Moriarty series […]

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    Gothic Tales: Essie Fox in conversation with Amanda Mason

    Whitby Museum Pannett Park, Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    Essie Fox’s debut novel, The Somnambulist, was selected for the Channel 4 Book Club. Her latest novel Dangerous: A Lord Byron Mystery has been declared ‘A magnificent gothic tale of scandal, secrets and murder’ by Janice Hallett. Set in Venice and drawing on real events from Byron’s life it follows the story of a novel […]

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    Scream Queen: Yvette Fielding

    Eighteen91 Brunswick Street, Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    From the rollercoaster ride of being Blue Peter’s youngest ever presenter to the rather unusual job of ‘ghost hunter,’ real-life Ghostbuster Yvette Fielding has Whitby spooked. The coastal town is the setting of her latest children’s book The Vampire of Whitby and the place she told the Yorkshire Post she’d like to retire to. The […]

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  • The Working-Class Library: Live Podcast with special guest author Adelle Stripe

    Coliseum Centre Victoria Place, Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    Join writer and editor Richard Benson (The Farm, The Valley) and Claire Malcolm (CEO of New Writing North) from the Working Class Library podcast as they seek to explore and reclaim working-class people’s contribution to English literature. Their quest is to establish a new ‘canon’ of working-class books that tell a different story to the established British literary canon. For this live […]

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  • Life on Magrs? Paul Magrs

    Eighteen91 Brunswick Street, Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    Whitby takes centre stage with cult writer Paul Magrs – known for his writings around Doctor Who. Paul’s Brenda and Effie Mystery series of novels merge comedy, fantasy, high art, and popular culture. Who knew that from the annals of Mary Shelley’s Gothic seminal work Frankenstein Brenda’s story would arise? Running a BnB in Whitby, Brenda is a […]

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    Vampish Tales: Emma Carroll

    Whitby Museum Pannett Park, Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    For readers aged 9+, bite into vampish powers with a brand-new adventure series following three cousins who discover they’re the descendants of Dracula. The trio combine their vampish powers to form the infamous vampire healing company, Dracula & Daughters! A tale dangerously close to the heart! Emma Carroll is a multi-award winning and bestselling author […]

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  • Black Wood Women and the History of Gothic Fiction

    Crafty Cove 2-4 Wellington Road, Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    Join authors and gothic literature experts, Dr Michael Stewart and Dr Claire O'Callaghan, as they discuss Michael's latest gothic novel, Black Wood Women, and where it sits within the canon of gothic literature. Where did gothic fiction come from and why did it catch fire? And how has it developed and adapted to the cultural […]

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