Gibbet Hill, the Irish writer’s macabre tale of a man set upon by strange children at the site of a real murder, was discovered by Dublin researcher Brian Cleary

The work by Bram Stoker, previously unknown to scholars, will be read and included in a book launched during Dublin’s annual Bram Stoker Festival.

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" 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.

Amateur historian Brian Cleary was paging through Stoker's works at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin, the gothic novelist's hometown, when he made the discovery.

A long-lost short story by Bram Stoker – the author of Dracula – has been unearthed by an amateur historian 130 years after it was published. Gibbert Hill was printed in a Christmas supplement of the Dublin edition of the Daily Mail in 1890,

Back in the 19th century, an Anglican priest would serve in Essex for ten years. Now, this vicar is one of the most famous in English history, known for inspiring the story of Bram Stoker's Dracula and writing the "definitive" book on werewolves.