The forgotten short story was recently discovered and will be read to the public for the first time this weekend at the Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival. View on euronews

According to AFP, 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.

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 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.

Brian Cleary was spending time in the National Library of Ireland when he came across a forgotten Bram Stoker short story.

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.

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.

Bram Stoker is renowned for creating Count Dracula, one of the most celebrated villains of literature and cinema, but earlier this week it was announced that a long lost short story by the famed author had been found in Dublin after 130 years – and is to be unveiled to the public at the festival.

This rare find, which has never been referenced in any Stoker bibliography or biography, will be brought to the public for the first time

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.

"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.