Whitby Gothic Weekend

Posted by Glennis Byron on October 30, 2010 in News tagged with English Heritage, Whitby Gothic Weekend

English Heritage has, according to the Guardian, ‘given the official seal of approval’ to this year’s Whitby Gothic Weekend, ‘altering the floodlights in the town’s ruined abbey (central to Bram Stoker Dracula plot) to beam purple and orange [??] for the event’. The abbey has ‘hired falconers to send birds of prey swooping through the ruins before dusk’ [ shortage of bats I assume], ‘while actors will demonstrate a bed of nails [I think I'm missing something] and conduct a full-scale, twilit Victorian funeral, with black plumed horses and mutes [now that I like]‘.

See Guardian report on the Whitby Gothic Weekend at http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/29/whitby-goth-festival-weekend

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About the Author – Glennis Byron

Glennis Byron has written 267 articles on The Gothic Imagination.

My main research interests are in nineteenth-century and contemporary Gothic. My next project, tentatively entitled Blood Money: Marketing the Gothic, will examine the ways in which the international publishing industries manufacture, construct, categorise and, in a sense, even define, the Gothic in contemporary culture. Along with Dale Townshend, I run the M.Litt in The Gothic Imagination at the University of Stirling.