Spring-heeled Jack
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Spring-heeled Jack was an entity in English folklore of the Victorian era. The first claimed sighting of Spring-heeled Jack was in 1837. Later sightings were reported all over the United Kingdom and w
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A public session at the Mansion House, London (c. 1840)
Ad for Spring Heeled Jack, a penny dreadful (1886)
North Camp in Aldershot as it looked in 1866
Penny dreadful
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Penny dreadfuls were cheap popular serial literature produced during the 19th century in the United Kingdom. The pejorative term is roughly interchangeable with penny horrible, penny awful, and penny
Spring-heeled Jack
…Jack became one of the most popular characters of the period. His alleged exploits were reported in the newspapers and became the subject of several penny dreadfuls and plays performed in the cheap theatres that abounded at the time. The devil was even renamed "Spring-heeled Jack" in some Punch and Judy shows, as…
Cover of a Varney the Vampire publication (1845)
Illustrated Chips comic magazine in 1896. Published by Alfred Harmsworth, it cost just a half-penny.
Spring-heeled Jack illustrated on the cover of the 1904 penny dreadful serial Spring-heeled Jack