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.

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

Brian Cleary, a clinical pharmacist in Dublin, was trawling through the archives at the National Library of Ireland a few years ago when he stumbled across something extraordinary: a virtually unknown short story by Bram Stoker,

Back in the 19th century, an Anglican priest would serve in Essex for ten years. Now, this vicar is one of the most famous in English history, known for inspiring the story of Bram Stoker's Dracula and writing the "definitive" book on werewolves.

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.