Spring Heeled Jack | Victorian Horrors 2 | European History

Spring Heeled Jack | Victorian Horrors 2 | European History

Victorian Horrors 1: The Birth of True Crime | European History


The figure of Jack the Ripper exists today as a foundational archetype of modern true crime, yet the entity known by that name may have been less a product of homicidal reality and more a “creature…
Conversation with @Taskerland took me to the Wikipedia page for #RobertBloch where I learned that Bloch had written several stories about #JackTheRipper
The first of these, "Yours truly, Jack the Ripper" cast the Ripper as an eternal being who must make human sacrifices to extend his immortality. This idea resurfaced in Bloch's contribution to the #StarTrek #TOS episode "Wolf in the Fold".
I was familiar with Bloch's #CthulhuMythos work but this I did not know.
*Adds to reading list*
My interest in the #mythology of #JackTheRipper began when I was an undergraduate in London in the 1990s. The student haunt of Brick Lane was popular for its legendary curry houses. A few steps away, on the corner of Fournier Street and Commercial Street, in the shadow of the strange, looming, obelisk-shaped steeple of Christ Church Spitalfields, stood the Ten Bells Public House.
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