... the Kilmarnock Arms Hotel in the small fishing village. The next morning he hiked to nearby Slains Castle which he used as his inspiration for the castle in his book. Here at the castle he began work on his most famous book Dracula. He didn't finish the book at this time, he returned the next summer to write the final pages. The ending of the book was changed, perhaps to leave it opened for a sequel, in the manuscript the ... June 12th, that same year. Many historians attribute the books strange plot, about a 200 foot long and 2000 year old giant worm-woman named Lady Arabella, to drug ...

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