Whitby Goth Weekend

The seaside town of Whitby in England’s North Yorkshire is a pilgrimage site for all true dark-hearted goths. The world-famous vampire, Count Dracula, was born in Whitby in 1980, inside the mind of Irish novelist Bram Stoker. He was inspired by a Russian ship, the Dmitry, wrecked on the rocks below the ruined abbey overlooking the town and imagined a vampire from deep and faraway Transylvania.

Whitby Goth Festival has its routes in the 1990s when a group of gothic-loving pen-pals arranged a meet-up in the victorian holidaying town of Whitby. In the early 2000s this grew in popularity around Halloween weekend. Today, the town hosts thousands of the macabre-minded goths from the 28th of October. Young and old, locals and international visitors, the popularity of the event shows that there has never been a better time to be a goth.