By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-19 21:04:58 | Updated at 2024-10-19 23:49:59
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Dracula Author's Lost Story Unearthed After 134 Years
BBC ^ | 10/20 | Maia Davies
Posted on 10/19/2024 2:02:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker, published just seven years before his legendary gothic novel Dracula.
Brian Cleary stumbled upon the 134-year-old ghostly tale while browsing the archives of the National Library of Ireland.
Gibbet Hill was originally published in a Dublin newspaper in 1890 - when the Irishman started working on Dracula - but has been undocumented ever since.
Stoker biographer Paul Murray says the story sheds light on his development as an author and was a significant “station on his route to publishing Dracula”. The ghostly story tells the tale of a sailor murdered by three criminals whose bodies were strung up on a hanging gallows as a warning to passing travellers.
It is set in Gibbet Hill in Surrey, a location also referenced in Charles Dickens’ 1839 novel Nicholas Nickleby.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Books/Literature; History
KEYWORDS: bramstoker; dracula; ireland
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