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

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

Rob Beschizza
Oct 21, 2024
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As found in an 1890 newspaper
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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…

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