The Barghest O' Whitby is the fifth EP by English doom metal band My Dying Bride, released on 7 November 2011.
Speaking to Lords of Metal, Aaron Stainthorpe said of the piece: Well, I wrote it myself, based on rough stories that we have read about in the Yorkshire area.
And so I wrote a story called 'The Barghest O’Whitby' about a large black dog which, at first, it seems to crawl the moor land randomly killing people, but it does not.
That is where the final confrontation takes place and it is a story of revenge... [...] We simply don’t indulge in the lore of our historic land enough, so I really went to town with this one.
The large dog is witness to its master being brutally murdered by a gang of smugglers out by a small cottage on the moor.