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.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
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This is really exciting. Thank you for the thread.
You are welcome.
Extremely interesting... IMHO...
Yes, thank you.
Yes!
Thank you for posting this!
A biting article!!!
Very cool.
Love “Dracula” by Bram Stoker.
It’s so intriguing, the way it’s composed of letters, news articles, research papers, real estate deeds, and narrative, in a seamless crescendo of horror.
It has been the inspiration for dozens of movies, but none of them come close to Stoker’s Book, in my humble opinion. }:-=
No, just books.......,..,,,
Very interesting, thank you for posting. I loved reading this genre, Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein, etc.
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