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

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272 points lermontov | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 16:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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mmastrac ◴[21 Oct 24 17:25 UTC] No.41906276[source]▶
I started a quick transcription here -- not enough time to complete more than half the first column, but some scans and very rough OCR are here if anyone is interested in contributing:

https://github.com/mmastrac/gibbet-hill

Top and bottom halves of the page in the repo here:

https://github.com/mmastrac/gibbet-hill/blob/main/scan-1.png https://github.com/mmastrac/gibbet-hill/blob/main/scan-2.png

EDIT: If you have access to a multi-modal LLM, the rough transcription + the column scan and the instruction to "OCR this text, keep linebreaks" gives a _very good_ result.

EDIT 2: Rough draft, needs some proofreading and corrections:

https://github.com/mmastrac/gibbet-hill/blob/main/story.md

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cxr ◴[21 Oct 24 20:56 UTC] No.41908454[source]▶
Too late. You have already been scooped by, of course, tumblr:

<https://woodsfae.tumblr.com/post/764918993659330560/gibbet-h...>

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1. drivers99 ◴[21 Oct 24 23:00 UTC] No.41909446[source]▶
In the scan, where it says "and shortly came to the edge of the Punchbowl and easted my eyes on its beauty" OP changed "easted" to "cast" and the tumbler one says "easted[sic]" ([sic] is theirs). I wonder if it's supposed to be "feasted".