A long-lost short story by the author of Dracula, Bram Stoker, has been rediscovered after over 130 years.
Clinical pharmacist Brian Cleary found the story, Gibbet Hill, pressed in a newspaper supplement from the Christmas of 1890.
After an experience of sudden hearing loss, Cleary had been pursuing his lifelong passion for the works of Bram Stoker at the National Library of Ireland, leafing through old clippings, when he made the discovery.
All proceeds from sales of Gibbet Hill will go to the Rotunda Foundation's Charlotte Stoker Fund to support research into deafness in babies - a fund named for Bram Stoker's mother, who was an advocate for deaf people.
Gibbet Hill is having its world premiere tomorrow at Dublin's Bram Stoker Festival.
The man who discovered the story, lifelong Stoker fan Brian Cleary, joins Emile Donovan from Dublin.
Brian Cleary discovered the long-lost 'Gibbet Hill' short story in a Christmas edition of the Dublin Daily Express from 1890, preserved at the National Library of Ireland. Photo: Supplied
