Download or read book Operation Spring Heeled Jack written by Justin L. Smith and published by Justin L. Smith. This book was released on with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow S.A.S. Captain, Rory McDermid of the Revolutionary Warfare Wing as he tries to rescue a civilian under mysterious circumstances. Will Rory complete his mission or will his mission end him?
Download or read book The Legend of Spring heeled Jack written by Karl Bell and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing study of a unique and unsettling cultural phenomenon in Victorian England. WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award NEW LOWER PRICE This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Starting as oral rumours, this supposedly supernatural entity moved from rural folklore to metropolitan press sensation, co-existing in literary and theatrical forms before finally degenerating into a nursery lore bogeyman to frighten children. A mercurial and unfixed cultural phenomenon, Spring-Heeled Jack found purchase in both older folkloric traditions and emerging forms of entertainment. Through this intriguing study of a unique and unsettling figure, Karl Bell complicates our appreciation of the differences, interactions and similarities between various types of popular culture between 1837 and 1904. The book draws upon a rich variety of primary source material including folklorist accounts, street ballads, several series of "penny dreadful" stories (and illustrations), journals, magazines, newspapers, comics, court accounts, autobiographies and published reminiscences. The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack is impressively researched social history and provides a fascinating insight into Victorian cultures. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in nineteenth-century English social and cultural history, folklore or literature. Karl Bell is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth.
Download or read book The Mystery of Spring Heeled Jack written by John Matthews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive investigation of the origins and numerous sightings of the mysterious and terrifying figure known as Spring-Heeled Jack • Shares original 19th-century newspaper accounts of Spring-Heeled Jack encounters as well as 20th and 21st-century reports • Explains his connections to Jack the Ripper and the Slender Man • Explores his origins in earlier mythical beings from folklore, his Steampunk popularity, and the theory that he may be an alien from a high-gravity planet Spring-Heeled Jack--a tall, thin, bounding figure with bat-like wings, clawed hands, wheels of fire for eyes, and breath of blue flames--first leapt to public attention in Victorian London in 1838, springing over hedges and walls, from dark lanes and dank graveyards, to frighten and sometimes physically attack women. News of this strange and terrifying character quickly spread, but despite numerous sightings through 1904 he was never captured or identified. Exploring the vast urban legend surrounding this enigmatic figure, John Matthews explains how the Victorian fascination with strange phenomena and sinister figures paired with hysterical reports enabled Spring-Heeled Jack to be conjured into existence. Sharing original 19th-century newspaper accounts of Spring-Heeled Jack sightings and encounters, he also examines recent 20th and 21st-century reports, including a 1953 UFO-related sighting from Houston, Texas, and disturbing accounts of the Slender Man, who displays notable similarities with Jack. He traces Spring-Heeled Jack’s origins to earlier mythical beings from folklore, such as fairy creatures and land spirits, and explores the theory that Jack is an alien marooned on Earth whose leaping prowess is attributed to his home planet having far stronger gravity than ours. The author reveals how Jack the Ripper, although a different and much more violent character, chose to identify himself with the old, well-established figure of Spring-Heeled Jack. Providing an extensive look at Spring-Heeled Jack from his beginnings to the present, Matthews illustrates why the worldwide Steampunk community has so thoroughly embraced Jack.
Download or read book Spring Heeled Jack written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack written by Mark Hodder and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1861. Sir Richard Francis Burton - explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his career in tatters; his former partner missing and probably dead. Algernon Charles Swinburne - unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade, for whom pain is pleasure, and brandy is ruin! Their investigations lead them to one of the defining events of the age, and the terrifying possibility that the world they inhabit shouldn't exist at all!
Download or read book Spring Heeled Jack the Terror of London By Charlton Lea written by Charlton Lea and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spring Heeled Jack written by Anonymous Anonymous and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "penny blood” came into being through a process which began with higher standards of general education and literacy in England at the beginning of the 19th century, and continued with the invention of fast and efficient printing presses and cheap paper production. These combined elements simultaneously created a new, mass market for literature, and fed that market with new, affordable product. The gothic novel, popular amongst a rarefied class of literary readers, duly gave way to sensationalistic, graphic shockers for the masses. The PENNY BLOOD CLASSICS ebook series, which focuses on the "golden age” of the penny bloods, continues with the legendary tale of Spring-Heeled Jack, first reported in 1808, and again in 1837. Spring-Heeled Jack was described by people who claimed to have seen him as having a terrifying and frightful appearance, with diabolical physiognomy, clawed hands, eyes that "resembled red balls of fire”, and the ability to perform astounding leaps. Jack was perfect melodrama material, and in 1840 John Thomas Haines wrote "Spring-Heeled Jack, the Terror of London", a play portraying him as a villain who stalks and attacks innocent women. This volume features "Spring-Heeled Jack: The Terror Of London", an anonymous penny blood published by the Newsagents' Publishing Company c.1864-1867. The book also includes an extensive introduction on the history of the penny blood.
Download or read book Spring Heeled Jack written by Charlton Lea and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ashley And Connie written by Justin L. Smith and published by Justin L. Smith. This book was released on with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grenada. 1985. Ash "Mouth of the South" Ledbetter now deals with the repercussions of a favor he did for an old friend from Vietnam. Richard is young and inexperienced. The life of a soldier of fortune may not be for him as he has come to find out the hard way. But Ash and his second in command, Kane Shigimoto do their best to prepare Richard for the life of a Mercenary, so they can help Richard and his family.
Download or read book Moonlight Over Monte Carlo written by Justin L. Smith and published by Justin L. Smith. This book was released on with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Specter and Idris Abbas of the FLAK-MEMA unit attempt to finally have concise evidence against smuggler Amir Tariq at the Casino de Monte-Carlo. Unfortunately for the duo, Amir may have found his latest victim; the recently divorced Rosetta. Will Amir ever face justice or has luck ran out for Ben, Idris, and Rosetta?
Download or read book Codename Spring Heeled Jack written by Uberto Ceretoli and published by Dunwich Edizioni. This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Una creatura terrorizza le notti londinesi, assalendo e deturpando inermi fanciulle. Chi lo ha visto lo descrive come un diavolo dal volto di pipistrello, mani artigliate, gambe sproporzionate capaci di balzi incredibili. Avvistamenti e molestie si diradano sino al silenzio della leggenda: Spring-heeled Jack, Jack dai tacchi a molla, il Diavolo saltatore. Non si tratta di un mostro ma di un ingegnoso atleta con un forte sdoppiamento della personalità. Un pazzo che oggi, 17 ottobre 1886, è fuggito dalla cella dove era rinchiuso.
Download or read book The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack written by Mark Hodder and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Richard Francis Burton investigates a strange apparition called Spring Heeled Jack that has been assaulting young women around London.
Download or read book Blood Royal written by Jonathan Green and published by Abaddon Books. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLOOD WILL OUT! Magna Britannia reels from the events that saw some of its citizens mutated into hideous insect hybrids. The streets are awash with rumours of a twisted new religion created from the destruction surrounding St Paul's Cathedral. In Europe, the spectre of war rears its ugly head, a war fought by unnatural beings. In the centre of the chaos, hero of the Empire, Ulysses Quicksilver, must maintain his calm, while madness reigns and he fights to protect civilisation itself. From the insect-haunted streets of a shattered London, to the cold snowy wastes of Russia, Ulysses finds himself on an adventure into the heart of a dark and bloody empire.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes written by Michael Newton and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 800 entries examine the facts, evidence, and leading theories of a variety of unsolved murders, robberies, kidnappings, serial killings, disappearances, and other crimes.
Download or read book A Midsummer Night s Mechanical written by Kirsten Weiss and published by misterio ipress. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Midsummer Murder... The California Territory, 1849 – Blamed for burning down the San Francisco wharf, clockwork inventor, Sensibility Grey has spent the last three months in hiding. Now all she wants is to depart the gold-crazy boomtown for a new life in the East. So when the owner of a traveling theater offers her work embellishing his mechanical stage, she turns him down. Then he turns up dead on her doorstep along with his enigmatic stage. An explorer of the mysteries of aether, Sensibility has her own secrets to keep, and adversaries who’ll stop at nothing to learn them. Is the mechanical stage a part of a bigger game? Or the key to unlocking her true, magical potential? A Midsummer Night’s Mechanical is book three in the Sensibility Grey series of steampunk suspense.
Download or read book Sensibility Grey Steampunk Collection Books 1 3 written by Kirsten Weiss and published by misterio press. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 943 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California Territory, 1848. Steam-powered technology is still in its infancy. Gold has been discovered, emptying the village of San Francisco of its male population. And newly arrived immigrant, Englishwoman Sensibility Grey, is alone. Sensibility has spent her life tinkering in her father’s laboratory and missing the finer points of proper British life. But when her father dies in penury, she’s shipped to the wild west of the California gold rush. Threats lurk behind every saloon and storefront in this anarchic territory. And her father kept deadly secrets, secrets that may destroy Sensibility and those she comes to love. Three thrilling novels of steampunk suspense, packed with mechanicals, magic and murder. Buy the Sensibility Grey Steampunk Collection and start reading these page-turning gaslight adventures today.
Download or read book A Dodge a Twist and a Tobacconist written by Sophronia Belle Lyon and published by Findley Family Video Publications. This book was released on with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oh, you're a Steampunk fan. You just don't know it yet. The Alexander Legacy company includes a diverse collection of classic characters on the track of a ruthless enslaver of souls. Prowl the foggy London streets. Encounter a nightmare from an Indian jungle. Travel the Thames in Sluefoot Sue's giant Catfish. Soar on a stealth glider with a Bohemian prince. When Oliver Twist unwraps an Algerian mummy at Charley Bates' funeral, will he discover his true enemy?
