Gibbet Hill — set in a notorious crime hotspot in the English countryside and published as Bram Stoker was beginning work on Dracula — is rediscovered by an amateur historian passing the time in the National Library of Ireland.

A short story by Bram Stoker, the legendary author of "Dracula", has been unearthed by a lifelong enthusiast in Dublin who stumbled upon the work while browsing in a library archive.

A long-lost story from Bram Stoker, the Irish author of one of the world's best known gothic horror stories Dracula, has been found in Dublin.

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 124-year-old ghostly tale while browsing the archives of the National Library of Ireland.

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.