Much of Dracula was written in Cruden Bay. The plot and main characters had been in planning for three years before 1893 and the author's first visit. Yet, Bram Stoker would not start writing the novel until 1895 when the first three chapters were written in the village.

Where did the story of Dracula originate?

To create his immortal antihero, Count Dracula, Stoker certainly drew on popular Central European folktales about the nosferatu (“undead”), but he also seems to have been inspired by historical accounts of the 15th-century Romanian prince Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler.

Why did Bram Stoker write Dracula?

Another theory says that the writer himself admitted that after a meal of dressed crab in a fashionable restaurant in London on March 8, 1890, Stoker had a vivid nightmare about blood-sucking creatures and this spurred him to write Dracula.