Whether you’re eight or in your eighties, you’re likely familiar with the best-selling children’s book author Marguerite Henry. Her book “Misty of Chincoteague” is one of the most popular children’s ...
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An amateur Irish historian says he is still coming to terms with finding a long-lost story by Dracula author Bram Stoker. Gibbet Hill was published in the Dublin edition of the Daily Express in ...
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He approached Paul Murray, author of From the Shadow of Dracula ... to Stoker when he visited Tennyson earlier that year with Henry Irving, Stoker’s theatre-impresario boss.
author of the Gothic masterpiece “Dracula.” The story, a creepy tale of the supernatural called “Gibbet Hill,” had been published in a now-defunct Irish newspaper in 1890, but had not ...
Stoker biographer Paul Murray says the story sheds light on his development as an author and was a significant “station on his route to publishing Dracula”. The ghostly story tells the tale of ...