An amateur historian made an incredible discovery at a library in Ireland unearthing a long-lost short story by the author of "Dracula," which had been forgotten for more than 130 years, according to ...
Dracula author Bram Stoker wrote a short story in 1890, seven years before he published his most famed work. Gibbet Hill is a similarly gothic affair, but its grim outcome-after we meet a murdered ...
"Gibbet Hill" tells of a sailor murdered by three criminals whose bodies were strung up on a hanging gallows on a hill as a ghostly warning to passing travelers.
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 ...