An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker

I don't know why people get obsessed over things like this. Finding significance in something because it's written by an entity whose name is popular makes no sense.

Valid take—your sense is that its adjacency to notoriety leads to people imbuing it with quality that they wouldn't if they were actually responding to quality and if it were J Random in the byline instead.

It's the same thing that drives the rich-get-richer phenomenon.

I remember thinking something similar when Facebook announced the Meta rebranding and people were atwitter about Zuckerberg's metaverse well past the point where it was clear that it was a dud—something that wouldn't have happened if there weren't a big name attached to it and people were responding purely to the merits.