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  • The Human Bat and The Black Phantom (1899-1901)
    J.S. Mackley
    Spring-Heeled Jack: The Human Bat (1899-1901) brings together two long-lost Victorian serials from The Funny Wonder, The Human Bat and The Black Phantom, now edited and introduced by J.S. Mackley. Running for more than two years between 1899 and 1901, these sensational tales transform the legend of Spring-Heeled Jack from London’s leaping ghost into a proto-supernatural detecti...
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    33,81 €

  • The Origin of the Giants
    J.S. Mackley
    The Origin of the Giants: The First Settlers of Albion presents the Anglo-Norman poem Dez Grantz Geanz in a new bilingual edition by J.S. Mackley. Composed between c.1250 and 1334 and preserved in British Library MS Cotton Cleopatra D.ix, this remarkable work offers the earliest account of Albina and her sisters-figures exiled from Greece who become the founders of Albion and t...
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    24,15 €

  • Spring-Heeled Jack
    J.S. Mackley
    In 1838, Londoners were gripped by fear of a strange figure said to leap over walls, breathe fire, and terrify young women: Spring-Heeled Jack. Over the next six decades, this shadowy figure transformed from a ghostly attacker to a trickster hero, an avenger, and even a figure of theatrical entertainment. Spring-Heeled Jack: Articles and Short Fiction (1838-1897) collects some ...
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  • The Anglo-Norman Voyage of St Brendan
    J.S. Mackley
    The tale of St Brendan is one of the most enduring legends of the medieval Christian world. Originally composed in Latin around the ninth century, the Nauigatio Sancti Brendani abbatis (The Voyage of St Brendan the Abbot) tells of the Irish saint who, with a company of monks, sets sail into the Atlantic Ocean to seek the Promised Land of the Saints. Their extraordinary seven-ye...
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    30,39 €