New Bram Stoker short story

[olivermoss]

Has been found in an old newspaper archive. This article has the first part of the story, but not the whole thing. Due to it's age, it should be public domain. Hopefully, it's easily accessible as a download soon.

Comments

[theseatheseatheopensea]

This is very cool!!! The whole story seems to be here (on page 2): https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000924296

[olivermoss]

I am hoping for easier text to read and to be able to drop it on my kindle. But, I may do that if I need to. I hear they are trying to publish the story and if people want to pay sure but, I am pretty sure it's also public domain due to age.

[theseatheseatheopensea]

I've just read that the book sales are going to charity/fundraising, so that's good. The public domain thing is a bit tricky, because if we still consider this an unpublished work, then it would be out of copyright in the USA but not in the UK, until 2040.

For personal use, a workaround could be to download the image and run OCR on it..

[olivermoss]

It was published in the newspaper, it just got lost.

[theseatheseatheopensea]

The newspaper article would be OOC 70 years after Stoker's death, which is why I mentioned downloading the image file, but there are currently two copyright holders in the UK, so I don't know how the book format will be treated. Apparently it will come out pretty soon!

[dickinsons]

I didn't have much to do this morning so I transcribed the story to read it more clearly. I'm not sure if I can post it somewhere since the public domain situation isn't clear though.

[theseatheseatheopensea]

Wow, I'm impressed you could do it so quickly despite that tiny font, you rule!!

The newspaper article would be out of copyright 70 years after Stoker's death, so if you post your transcription with attribution (name of the paper, date, and a link to the NLI page where the digital image is publicly hosted), it should be fine!

[dickinsons]

I posted my transcript after the attribution (which I hope is okay) here. I hope it's useful for people wanting to read it as soon as possible!

[theseatheseatheopensea]

Thank you for taking the time to do this and for sharing it! Would it be OK to share your post here on DW? I imagine lots of people will be interested, and everyone's eyesight will be spared thanks to you!

ETA: it's just up on Wikisource as well:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gibbet_Hill

[dickinsons]

Sure! And oh, that's cool that it's also on Wikisource! But feel free to share my transcription if you want as well :D

[theseatheseatheopensea]

Thank you again for all your work!

[olivermoss]

That is amazing! Thank you so much!

(Sorry for the slow reply, I recently got back to town and am swamped)

[dickinsons]

You're welcome!

[dickinsons]

This is so cool!!

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, that is very cool! Thanks so much for sharing!

[olivermoss]

Welcome!