Spring Heeled Jack will be available on kindle for £1.98 on Jan 28th ahead of schedule... Still looking at ibooks, nook etc
I know this is a tad wordy, but here's the back page blurb to wet your appetites
Spring Heeled Jack is a 71 page full colour graphic novel that was originally published on CDrom in 2010 by CDComics. It pulls together many of the myths of Spring Heeled Jack placing them into a narrative that finally solves the mystery surrounding this urban legend and brings the demon bang up to date.
It is wrongly claimed and accepted by many that the first sightings of Spring Heeled Jack were made in 1837 in London and the last reported sighting is said to have been made in Liverpool in 1904 another incorrect date.
The tales of his bizarre appearance and ability to make extraordinary leaps quickly became the topic of fiction in London’s Penny Dreadfuls and some literary historians say he was the inspiration for Dracula and Batman, but truth is often much stranger and more bizarre than fiction.
The reality is Spring Heeled Jack first appeared centuries before 1837 and was referred to in a letter to the Editor of the Sheffield Times in 1808, which stated that Jack had been known in the area for many years and sighted his last visit in 1773. The Park Ghost as he was called before London’s tabloid frenzy was known to attack women, ripping at their clothes and with his eyes glowing red would leap laughing over the rooftops to escape his pursuers.
In 1873, there were again numerous sightings of the Park Ghost in Sheffield, who by then had been identified as Spring Heeled Jack. The demon was seen leaping up the sides of building and terrorised another generation of women and men with his unprovoked attacks.
In 1973 there were reports of a prowler in Attercliffe, Sheffield, that had glowing red eyes, carried a pitch fork, but as one witness stated, “His face I can't remember, just those burning red eyes, I honestly think he was the Devil.” This prowler was seen running up the sides of buildings, leaping over rooftops during and as the carving of Spring Heeled Jack on the timber frame of the Old Queen’s Head, built 1475, shows, the Sheffield Bogeyman has been with us for longer than 175 years.
In this graphic novel, Spring Heeled Jack’s narrative plays out over five, twenty-four periods, between the strokes of two midnights, starting on Halloween and then every thirteenth day until the Winter Solstice. The mystery of the true nature of Spring Heeled Jack unfolds across three specific years 1873, 1973 and his unexpected and early return in 2011, when all the demons secrets are finally revealed.
