INSIDE THE BOX IN THE ATTIC MARKED ‘DRACULA’...
When Louise Fyfe from Ayrshire read an article in the Observer mentioning my investigations into Bram Stoker’s visits to Cruden Bay, she...
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- Dec 15, 2022
- 4 min
THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO SLAINS CASTLE AND DRACULA
1. Slains Castle did not inspire the plot for Dracula Yes, I know it’s everywhere on the internet that Slains Castle inspired the plot...
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- Dec 9, 2022
- 5 min
BATTLING FAIRIES IN ABERDEENSHIRE OF OLD
In October 1675 the Synod of Aberdeen issued this instruction to Church ministers in Aberdeenshire: ‘Act anent wizards and such who...
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- Dec 4, 2022
- 5 min
An English soldier in Jacobite Aberdeenshire, 1746
James Ray, born in Whitehaven, Cumberland, volunteered to fight against the Jacobites. These are excerpts from his memoir of the time...
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