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The Return of Spring-heeled Jack

Author : Jennifer Caress
Publisher : Black Bed Sheet Books
ISBN 13 : 0985882972
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book The Return of Spring-heeled Jack written by Jennifer Caress and published by Black Bed Sheet Books. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spring-Heeled Jack is a British urban legend, first appearing in 1837. Eye witnesses tell of a man who could leap several stories in the air with little effort. Some say he could breathe blue fire, others say he lured women out of their homes and attacked them by clawing at their faces. By all accounts he was a thief and a menace. Sightings of Spring-Heeled Jack continued for several centuries and crossed numerous continents, but he has been mysteriously absent from the 21st century. Until now. Spring-Heeled Jack breaks into the houses of two women, brutally attacking them both. Police report that a few items from each house were stolen and neither women were critically injured. His appearance is frightening: dressed in all black with hat, full face mask, goggles, cape, shirt, pants, and boots. He then breaks into an antique store, searching for special items for their energies including a rare glass knife. With the correct combination of objects and energies, Jack can open portals to different times and places. Enter Alice, who works at the store. Jack suspects she herself can open portals and the two develop an unlikely alliance in a search for a portal to a mythological utopia.

The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack

Author : Mark Hodder
Publisher : Pyr
ISBN 13 : 1616142901
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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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 373 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!

The Legend of Spring-heeled Jack

Author : Karl Bell
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843837870
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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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.

The Mystery of Spring-Heeled Jack

Author : John Matthews
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620554976
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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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 360 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.

Spring-Heeled Jack

Author : Philip Pullman
Publisher : Puffin
ISBN 13 : 9780241362310
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Spring-Heeled Jack written by Philip Pullman and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose and Lily and their little brother Ned live in an orphanage - a terrible place, where the porridge is thin and cold, and nobody smiles. One dark and stormy night, they decide enough is enough, and they run away. But hiding in the shadows, as they make their way through the dangerous back streets of London, is Mack the Knife- the most villainous of villains ... Hiding above the streets, leaping through the air, is Spring-Heeled Jack. He dresses like the devil and his name creates shivers in people, but he is ready for action against the evil-doers and scallywags of the city's dark streets - Mack the Knife included - and he might just be able to save the orphans.

Springheeled Jack

Author : David Hitchcock
Publisher : Titan Comics
ISBN 13 : 9781782761297
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Springheeled Jack written by David Hitchcock and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deeply traumatised by the mysterious loss of his wife and having spent time with the inmates of the Bedlam lunatic asylum, Sir Jack Rackham becomes a profoundly troubled man. With his sanity vicariously close to breaking point, he is haunted by visions of a black vulture with flaming eyes snatching his beloved wife, and decides that he must find the monster plaguing his memory to discover the truth behind the disappearance. Along with his friend Doctor Henry Jekyll, Rackham takes the hunt to the streets of London but quickly realises that he could be sinking deeper into a conspiracy that threatens to rock the very foundations of the British Empire.

The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man

Author : Mark Hodder
Publisher : Pyr
ISBN 13 : 1616143606
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man written by Mark Hodder and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Hodder's second Burton & Swinburne steampunk adventure, following the acclaimed The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack, is filled with eccentric steam-driven technology, grotesque characters, and a deepening mystery. When a clockwork-powered man of brass is found abandoned in Trafalgar Square, Burton and his assistant, the wayward poet Algernon Swinburne, find themselves on the trail of the stolen Garnier Collection--black diamonds rumored to be fragments of the Lemurian Eye of Naga, a meteorite that fell to Earth in prehistoric times. From a haunted mansion to the Bedlam madhouse, from South America to Australia, from séances to a secret labyrinth, Burton struggles with shadowy opponents and his own inner demons. Can the king's agent expose a plot that threatens to rip the British Empire apart, leading to an international conflict the like of which the world has never seen? And what part does the clockwork man have to play? From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Lore of the Land

Author : Jennifer Westwood
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lore of the Land written by Jennifer Westwood and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where can you find the 'Devil's footprints'? What happened at the 'hangman's stone'? Did Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, ever really exist? Where was King Arthur laid to rest? Bringing together tales of hauntings, highwaymen, family curses and lovers' leaps, this magnificent guide will take you on a magical journey through England's legendary past.

Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon

Author : Mark Hodder
Publisher : Pyr
ISBN 13 : 1616145366
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon written by Mark Hodder and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1863, but not the one it should be. Time has veered wildly off course, and now the first moves are being made that will lead to a devastating world war and the fall of the British Empire. Caught in a tangled web of cause, effect, and inevitability, little does Burton realize that the stakes are far higher than even he suspects. A final confrontation comes in the mist-shrouded Mountains of the Moon, in war- torn Africa of 1914, and in Green Park, London, where, in the year 1840, Burton must face the man responsible for altering time: Spring Heeled Jack! Burton and Swinburne's third adventure is filled with eccentric steam-driven technology, grotesque characters, and bizarre events, completing the three-volume story arc begun in The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack and The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man. From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Return of the Discontinued Man

Author : Mark Hodder
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473583853
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Return of the Discontinued Man written by Mark Hodder and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burton and Swinburne return in a new wildly imaginative steampunk adventure, and this time they’re facing their greatest foe... Leicester Square, London. Blood red snow falls from the sky and a strange creature, disorientated and apparently insane, materialises out of thin air. Spring Heeled Jack has returned, and he is intent on one thing: hunting Sir Richard Francis Burton. Burton is experiencing one hallucination after another; visions of parallel realities and future history plague his every thought. These send him, and his companions, on an unimaginable expedition – a voyage through time itself...

The Gawain Legacy

Author : Jon Mackley
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782794840
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book The Gawain Legacy written by Jon Mackley and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleeing a loveless marriage, Lara finds herself in the company of Will who is also running from his past. Will claims to have found the beginning of a trail of clues in a stolen medieval manuscript of "Gawain and the Green Knight". Travelling with him to Chester to begin deciphering the clues, Lara realises that Will has attracted the attention of enemies who seem capable of anticipating their every move. Lara's only hope is to find what lies at the end of the trail. But Lara discovers she has made some powerful enemies of her own with a hidden agenda... ,

Mia's Tempest

Author : L.A. Nantz
Publisher : Black Bed Sheet Books
ISBN 13 : 0692517324
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Mia's Tempest written by L.A. Nantz and published by Black Bed Sheet Books. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mia’s tempest is a long look at what could go wrong if our world couldn't fight back against the forces of nature and apocalypse, how that fight might affect individual lives, and how just one person’s unwillingness to take responsibility for their actions could damn us all. In the span of a single year, we walk in the shoes of those people, to try and understand what it is to be human in a world full of horror, zombies, magic, climate change, and fear of what the next season might bring.

Spring-Heel'd Jack

Author : Alfred Coates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Spring-Heel'd Jack written by Alfred Coates and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spring-heel'd Jack: The Terror of London (1863 story). Nearly 600 pages of a Gothic Penny Dreadful serial.Spring-Heeled Jack: his name struck terror into the hearts of the people of London when Queen Victoria ascended the throne. Twenty-five years later, Jack became the subject of popular fiction through a serial publication about his antics. Few copies of the original publication survive. Even the British Library's collection is missing an issue. In this volume, the missing episode has been restored to complete the narrative of a masked aristocrat who becomes an avenger and defender of the oppressed and the vulnerable. This is the first volume of the Spring-Heeled Jack Library which will restore and make accessible the wildly different serials and short fictions about this focus of urban legend.

Knaves Over Queens

Author : Wild Cards Trust
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250168058
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Knaves Over Queens written by Wild Cards Trust and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for current fans and new readers alike, Knaves Over Queens is an all-new adventure set in London, featuring a fresh cast of characters from the Wild Cards universe. Developed by aliens and field-tested on Earth, the virus known as Xenovirus Takis-A was released in New York in 1946, changing the course of human history forever. Most of those infected die — and a tiny percentage become deformed beings known as jokers. A lucky few survivors become aces: superhumans gifted with amazing powers. Now the virus has reached Britain. There, Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, gifted with extraordinary longevity, together with the Enigma ace Alan Turing, set up a special organization named the Order of the Silver Helix. They will need all of the wild cards they can find if they are to deal with the terrifying mutations spawned by the virus. Edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and Melinda M. Snodgrass, Knaves Over Queens features the writing talents of Paul Cornell, Marko Kloos, Mark Lawrence, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Emma Newman, Peter Newman, Peadar O Guilin, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Caroline Spector, and Charles Stross. Now in development for TV: Rights to develop Wild Cards have been acquired by Universal Cable Productions, the team behind The Magicians and Mr. Robot, with the co-editor of Wild Cards, Melinda Snodgrass, as executive producer. The Wild Cards Universe The Original Triad #1 Wild Cards #2 Aces High #3 Jokers Wild The Puppetman Quartet #4: Aces Abroad #5: Down and Dirty #6: Ace in the Hole #7: Dead Man’s Hand The Rox Triad #8: One-Eyed Jacks #9: Jokertown Shuffle #10: Dealer’s Choice #11: Double Solitaire #12: Turn of the Cards The Card Sharks Triad #13: Card Sharks #14: Marked Cards #15: Black Trump #16: Deuces Down #17: Death Draws Five The Committee Triad #18: Inside Straight #19: Busted Flush #20: Suicide Kings The Fort Freak Triad #21: Fort Freak #22: Lowball #23: High Stakes The American Triad #24: Mississippi Roll #25: Low Chicago #26: Texas Hold 'Em At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Secret of Abdu El-Yezdi

Author : Mark Hodder
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1625673698
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book The Secret of Abdu El-Yezdi written by Mark Hodder and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip K. Dick Award-winning author Mark Hodder continues his Burton & Swinburne Adventures with a steampunk adventure set in an alternate England teetering on the edge of annihilation... After barely surviving his discovery of the source of the Nile, explorer Sir Richard Burton returns home to fame, glory, and a knighthood from his highness King George V. But he also receives another title―King’s Agent...for Burton may be the only man who can save England from doom. Once he is brought into the king’s service, Sir Richard is trusted with a shocking truth: ever since the assassination of Queen Victoria, those in power have been guided and advised by a spirit―Abdu El Yezdi―whose wisdom has brought about incredible progress and prosperity. Unfortunately, the voice of El Yezdi has fallen silent just as a controversial alliance is about to be formed with the Central German Confederation. More suspicious still are the disappearances of a number of England’s most brilliant thinkers and builders, with no clue as to who is responsible. Now, aided by his own circle of unlikely and unconventional allies—including the devilishly lewd poet Algernon Swinburne—Sir Richard must delve into the darkest reaches of both the mystical and machine worlds if England is to survive a coming storm unlike anything ever imagined...

Spring-Heeled Jack (1904)

Author : Charlton Lea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Spring-Heeled Jack (1904) written by Charlton Lea and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-06 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Spring-Heeled Jack made his final "canonical" appearance in Liverpool in 1904, 12 issues of a serial novel was published by the Aldine Newspaper Company.Set just before Britain engages in the Napoleonic wars, celebrated officer Bertram Wraydon, is framed for spying for the enemy. He escapes execution and flees into hiding, but, in doing so, he forfeits his estates to his half-brother, Hubert Sedgefield. Wraydon attempts to reclaim his lost heritage, and, to do so, he is assisted by the mysterious figure known as Spring-Heeled Jack. As Wraydon is forced deeper into the shadowy underworld of espionage and treason, Spring-Heeled Jack confronts each of Wraydon's adversaries to restore his good name. But there is a line between Justice and Law that Spring-Heeled Jack is willing to cross.All of the collections of this rare serial novel are incomplete, however, the missing issue has been located and included for this volume, which also features a new introduction by J.S Mackley.

Twisting Fate's Arm

Author : Jon Mackley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781495378232
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (782 download)

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Download or read book Twisting Fate's Arm written by Jon Mackley and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colin Jones is a man with a past. Memories of his relationship with Anita, a married woman, from a decade before, are rekindled by her son, Jamie. When Jamie pleads with Colin to return with him to help his mother, Colin remembers Anita's apparent gift of talking to the dead, and how people from Colin's own past had become a very real presence. However, Colin also believes that he and Anita knew each other in a past life a century before. Ernest Forsythe was a reporter, actor and eventually a soldier; Angela Montague was a wide-eyed girl with a love of theatre and initially an exponent of the propaganda of war. And Angela knows more about Ernest's past than he is comfortable with: even ghosts can be haunted. Assisted by his concerned secretary and an old friend from his youth, Colin begins to confront his ghosts, both literal and metaphorical. However, one-by-one the 'players' from the past are being brought together, and there are those who have their own reasons for ensuring that previous events are retold.