Spring-Heeled Jack

Spring-Heeled Jack is not only a figure in history/folklore.

Introducing Burton & Swinburne Lou Anders 2009

She paid careful attention to the stranger, chilling stories about witches disguised as street-corner beggars, ghosts that inhabited the attics of several well-known mansions, thieves and creatures who lived in the sewers, and the mysteriously named denizens of midnight London: the dead inhabitants of Number 50 Berkeley Square, Spring-Heeled Jack, the Clockwork Man.

SNOW Tracy Lynn 2003

She paid careful attention to the stranger, chilling stories about witches disguised as street-corner beggars, ghosts that inhabited the attics of several well-known mansions, thieves and creatures who lived in the sewers, and the mysteriously named denizens of midnight London: the dead inhabitants of Number 50 Berkeley Square, Spring-Heeled Jack, the Clockwork Man.

SNOW Tracy Lynn 2003

You might call him the Spring-Heeled Jack of Journalism.

The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster Harold Begbie 1900

Arabian Nights of Prince Florizel for the puppets of whose adventures, as for Spring-Heeled Jack, he was the sitter.

Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties Elizabeth Robins Pennell 1895

Spring-Heeled Jack, "the loud, copious, and intolerant talker" of that essay just as Henley was the Burly.

Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties Elizabeth Robins Pennell 1895

A crooked Bow Street Runner with a flintlock revolver, flying things that are not supposed to fly, and the violent Scientific Phantasmagoria that is christened Spring-Heeled Jack, but is known by other names.

ComicList Headlines 2009

A crooked Bow Street Runner with a flintlock revolver, flying things that are not supposed to fly, and the violent Scientific Phantasmagoria that is christened Spring-Heeled Jack, but is known by other names.

ComicList Headlines 2009

Sometimes the villain would pole-vault across the canal, like Spring-Heeled Jack, for the sole purpose of setting upon a poor innocent orphan or cripple plucking flowers for a nosegay from the canalside shrub beds.

Hooting Yard 2009

The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder.

Spotlight on June Books Liviu 2010