No fangs to Castle Dracula flats bid
AN OAP is fighting to stop a castle linked to Dracula being turned into flats.
Retired civil servant Joe Allan, 83, of East Kilbride, is trying to save Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire after first seeing it as a child.
The cliff-top ruin is subject to a consultation as to whether it should be granted B-listed status.
Experts say the castle’s floor plan matches the description of Dracula’s lair in the Bram Stoker novel. Stoker wrote of “a vast ruined castle whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky”.
The novelist was inspired by Slains and wrote part of the 1897 Gothic horror story while staying nearby.
Joes said: “Virtually all of Dracula was written here. Most of the descriptions match up with Slains Castle.”