{"product_id":"spring-heeld-jack-alfred-coates-9781917130004","title":"Spring-Heel'd Jack: The Terror of London (1863)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpring-Heeled Jack: The Terror of London (1863)\u003c\/strong\u003e is the first full-length serial novel featuring one of Victorian Britain's most notorious urban legends. First published as a penny dreadful in 1863 and reprinted in 1867, this extraordinary narrative transformed Spring-Heeled Jack from whispered terror and theatrical villain into a fully realised Gothic anti-hero.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeaping from the gaslit streets of London and the fevered imagination of the nineteenth century, Spring-Heeled Jack is both trickster and vigilante: a masked aristocrat who prowls the city after dark, terrifying wrongdoers and rescuing the vulnerable. With his phosphorescent fire, devilish mask, and extraordinary ability to leap great distances, Jack is the archetype of the modern costumed avenger - a figure who sits somewhere between folklore, Gothic fiction, and the earliest roots of the superhero tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis \u003cstrong\u003enew critical edition\u003c\/strong\u003e, edited by \u003cstrong\u003eJ. S. Mackley\u003c\/strong\u003e, presents the \u003cem\u003ecomplete\u003c\/em\u003e text of the 1863 serial novel for the first time in modern print. The volume also includes a substantial introductory essay that explores the legend's folkloric origins, its links to aristocratic scandal, theatrical spectacle, and the sensationalist penny press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth a thrilling Victorian narrative and a cultural artefact of enduring significance, \u003cem\u003eSpring-Heeled Jack: The Terror of London\u003c\/em\u003e offers modern readers a rare glimpse into the dark imagination of nineteenth-century Britain - and restores one of its most infamous legends to its full original form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alfred Coates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1917130007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781917130004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Isengrin Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 604\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.22d","brand":"Alfred Coates","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48066803630335,"sku":"9781917130004","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0a6b3b73-46ac-426a-be15-7944c822eed2.jpg?v=1768680622","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spring-heeld-jack-alfred-coates-9781917130004","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}