Oops.....forgive my mistake...That should be: Victorian_Urban_Gothic Colin ... BloodsandDimeNovels@... om, Terry Hooper ... with your link for quite...
Hello Steve, I am a very silent member, indeed, of our group. I follow the correspondence with great interest! I have been a collector of bloods for 50...
I have found a really good web site for selling and trading. I want to share it with everyone. The site is http://www.MYDREW.com ; They have a excellent social...
A friend is looking for a copy of this story paper, Boys' Magazine, Volume 23, No. 608, October 28, 1933. It's a long shot but enjoy the image anyway. Edwy...
Hi, John -- Wonder if your zine-seeking contact is aware that any copy of this King Kong issue is going to price out at a minimum of $250.00. KK print...
Just a note about the illustrations for Falcon Swift on my website. I have often thought these look a lot like Frank Hampson's (Hampton ?)comic artwork on...
Hi John, "Just a note about the illustrations for Falcon Swift on my website. I have often thought these look a lot like Frank Hampson's (Hampton ?)comic...
A new 20 odd page revised list of early criminal literature, comic and fiction periodicals and penny bloods. The titles of the 3 Spring-Heeled Jack pamphlets...
Here are some illustrations from Spring-Heel'd Jack : The Terror of London. A Romance of the Nineteenth Century, By the author of the "Confederate's Daughter,"...
Message 1784 and 1785 : I had asked ; "I noticed this title in the Collectors Miscellany. Was it real, or another Quaine invention? Bloodstained Bill." Turns...
Well, I finally found time to join! Hello, everyone. I'm Dennis McCarthy. I'm an SHJ collector -- my goal is to acquire all penny dreads, plays, stories,...
I'm also looking for a book called "The Jumping Man of Victorian England," by Philip Wargen (Londonderry Press, 1974). I'm not entirely certain this book...
Ahhh. That may be my fault. In 1974 I wrote a 120pp manuscript on Spring-heeled Jack titled,very lamely "The Jumping Man Of Victorian London:Spring Heeled...
Ah-ha! It has to be the same book! Are copies available, Terry? ... Spring-heeled Jack titled,very lamely "The Jumping Man Of Victorian London:Spring Heeled...
My own copy was lost thanks to some stupid tv researcher at Yorkshire TV I had to work with and I've had to reprise a lot for the proposed tv documentary [DO...
Yikes! Will do, Terry. I have a friend in the UK in the film and TV business -- perhaps (with huge gobs of luck) I could hunt down the researcher. FYI, your...
Thanks to Jess Nevins, Mike Dash, and a little of my own research, following is what I hope are SHJ's complete literary credentials from his first fictional...
Okay, I was working with Yorkshire TV in....1989...on some TV ideas and the researcher borrowed my copy to make a copy! When I rang later and said I needed...
Hello, I'd like to chime in here as a fan of Spring Heeled Jack. I've even written several short stories, one novella, and am writing another one right now....
Kevin! Did you recently appear in a short film about SHJ? Incidentally, I've got both your SHJ books -- very weird, very unsettling (and therefore fun). Is...
Kevin, I'll check out those links. Actually,did you know that 'SHJ' was supposedly seen in,I believe,Virginia in 1948? Not much info and I wouldn't say it...
Hi Dennis, Unfortunately, I've never heard of a short SHJ film. My friends want to make one with me, but I'm working on other projects. I'm thinking of turning...
Hi Terry, I don't think I knew about the sighing in 1948, thanks! I'll have to look up some information on that. Let me add that your work and the work of...