May
World Dracula Day Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula was released on May 26, 1897 and the Whitby Dracula Society created the holiday to celebrate this day in 2012. A relatively new holiday there are no long held traditions, but the story of Dracula is well known and a themed party is the most often type of celebration. Costumes, Dracula inspired foods, spooky music and possibly a film to complete the evening. A synopsis of the novel has a solicitor traveling to Bran Castle in Transylvania where he discovers Dracula, a vampire. He escapes and the Count moves to the seaside town of Whitby in England where he plagues the town. In the end he is hunted down and killed. Although there is still controversy surrounding the actual inspiration for the novel, there are many places claiming to be part of the history. The name Dracula actually means the devil, in Romanian. Dracula is one of the most famous pieces of English literature.
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