Boing Boing

Boing Boing

Share this post

Boing Boing
Boing Boing
Lost Bram Stoker short story "Gibbet Hill" found after 134 years
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More

Lost Bram Stoker short story "Gibbet Hill" found after 134 years

It's very late Victorian, they paid by the word.

Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing
Oct 21, 2024
∙ Paid

Share this post

Boing Boing
Boing Boing
Lost Bram Stoker short story "Gibbet Hill" found after 134 years
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
Share

As found in an 1890 newspaper
Bram stoker

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 sailor, the three criminals strung up on a hanging gallows as a warning to travellers, an actual traveller, three kids, and a snake—comes much fast…

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to Boing Boing to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in
© 2025 Happy Mutants LLC
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture

Share

Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More