 In his book contribution "Dracula and the Psychic World of the East End of London," Clive Bloom noted that the Dracula of "Makt myrkranna" is more closely associated with the East End of London than he is in "Dracula", which he argued was meant to link the Count to Jack the Ripper, and to the East End as a "wild frontier" region of Britain.In the Victorian era, the East End was a center of poverty, disease and crime, especially prostitution.Given the preexisting popular image of the East End as a place of crime and sexual depravity, the "Jack the Ripper" murders of 1888 with five prostitutes gruesomely murdered caught the public's imagination as a symbol of "sexual danger" associated with London and above all the East End.