Black capes and pointed canines: the world record for the number of people dressed as vampires was beaten on Thursday night in Whitby, 125 years after the novel was published Dracula inspired by this small town in the North East of England.
We just broke the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people dressed as vampires, with 1369 vampires!wrote on Twitter English Heritage, a British organization that manages the site of Whitby Abbey, now in ruins, where the work was carried out.
The official dress code is strict: black shoes, black pants or dress, black cape and fang.
The former record of 1039 vampires was set in Doswell, Virginia in the United States.
Draculaof Irish writer Bram Stoker, which tells the story of this bloodthirsty earl, was first published in 1897 and has since produced many adaptations, especially for cinema.
The North Yorkshire port city on the North Sea which Bram Stoker visited in 1890 provided the setting for his Gothic novel, according to English Heritage.
Source: Radio-Canada