Amateur historian discovers lost Stoker short story

October 20, 2024 4:49 AM

"I read the words Gibbet Hill and I knew that wasn't a Bram Stoker story that I had ever heard of in any of the biographies or bibliographies."

Wikipedia entry.

posted by cupcakeninja (4 comments total)

I immediately reached out to the nonprofit to ask about buying a copy!
posted by doctornemo at 7:54 AM on October 20 [1 favorite]

Thanks! I hadn't seen this, and it explains why Swan River Press had a couple of threads yesterday about several Stoker rediscoveries of the past decade.
posted by Wobbuffet at 7:56 AM on October 20 [1 favorite]

Swan River Press is such a wonderful little press, and their books (those I've seen or bought, anyway) are beautiful.
posted by cupcakeninja at 8:36 AM on October 20 [3 favorites]

I worked at the library in college. One of things we were required to do was to take down a shelves of early bound newspapers and toss them into the trash. Yes, yes, the paper was disintegrating, as wood paper does, but still -

Bothers me all these years later
posted by BWA at 1:57 PM on October 20 [1 favorite]