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Spring-Heeled Jack: Articles and Short Fiction (1838-1897): (3 The Spring-Heeled Jack Library)


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In 1838, Londoners were gripped by fear of a strange figure said to leap over walls, breathe fire, and terrify young women: Spring-Heeled Jack. Over the next six decades, this shadowy figure transformed from a ghostly attacker to a trickster hero, an avenger, and even a figure of theatrical entertainment. Spring-Heeled Jack: Articles and Short Fiction (1838-1897) collects some of the earliest surviving short fiction, articles, and cultural responses to one of the most notorious figures of Victorian urban legend. This third volume in the Spring-Heeled Jack Library begins with the earliest documented appearances of Jack, including the "Resident of Peckham" letter to the Lord Mayor of London and Franklin's Miscellany article that helped spark the legend. It then follows Jack's literary trail through short stories, morality tales, popular magazines, dime novels, dialect stories, and sensational fiction, charting how his image evolved through print culture and performance. Included are: The Spring Jack (1838) Selections from The Boy's Standard (1878), attributed to George Augustus Sala Articles from All the Year Round (1884) Spring Heel Jack, or the Masked Mystery of the Tower (1885) by Thomas Hoyer Monstery The "Dialect Story" (1888) inspired by Wigan sightings The Mystery of Spring Heel Jack, or The Haunted Grange (1897) by S. Clarke Hooke Editor J.S. Mackley provides a detailed introduction situating each text within its historical and cultural context. Drawing on contemporary press reports, penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and folk memory, this volume reveals how Spring-Heeled Jack blurred the lines between urban legend, Gothic fiction, popular entertainment, and social anxiety in nineteenth-century Britain. Meticulously curated, this collection offers both scholars and enthusiasts an unparalleled resource on the evolution of the Jack mythos - from terrifying phantom to sensational hero.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781917130035
  • Publisher: Isengrin Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Isengrin Publishing
  • Height: 234 mm
  • Series Title: 3 The Spring-Heeled Jack Library
  • ISBN-10: 1917130031
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 369
  • Width: 156 mm


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