Bram Stoker's Gibbet Hill and Other Lost Writings

This book demonstrates how even Stoker's nonfictive works, including his jokes, often find themselves at home in the elusive realm of which Senf  is here speaking. After more than six years of archival inquiry, the editors present here nineteen previously unknown or relatively unglimpsed published letters, works of short fiction, and journalistic writing by Bram Stoker (1847-1912), including "Gibbet Hill" (1890), a Gothic short story they discovered in 2016. Additionally, they present fifty-five other unknown period writings, including interviews with or about Stoker as well as public addresses, speeches, and testimonies. The works in this book, together with the extensive research offered in the introduction, prefatory note, and annotations, not only highlight the intertextuality between Dracula and other of Stoker's works, but support the conclusion that Stoker's periodical writings indeed denote a much greater force in his literary repertoire than previously accepted. Not surprisingly, many of the works in this book exhibit the same curious sprinkling of characteristically delicate Gothicisms and "other knowledges" for which Stoker has become known outside of Dracula. As Carol A. Senf has noted of Stoker's other fictions in science and social science in Bram Stoker's Fiction (2002), they often occupy an elusive place, "a realm that is not precisely Gothic but that is somehow beyond the scientific and rational world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."