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

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323 points lermontov | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 16:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.505s | source
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staticman2 ◴[21 Oct 24 19:00 UTC] No.41907241[source]▶
I remember reading somewhere- I think it was in an annotated addition of Dracula, or maybe it was a journal article- that said that Bram Stoker wrote a large number of novels but everything he wrote other than Dracula was awful. Per Wikipedia he wrote 14 books, supposedly he was only able to write one good one.
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1. latexr ◴[22 Oct 24 12:12 UTC] No.41913480[source]▶
> Per Wikipedia he wrote 14 books, supposedly he was only able to write one good one.

It’s interesting that Dracula falls right in the middle of his career. It strongly suggests it was a fluke. Doesn’t look like he ever had an inkling of how famous the story would be, the Wikipedia page says he was best known while living for being a personal assistant and business manager to some other bloke. That’s a bit sad.

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