 This series of crimes has not yet passed from the memory -- a series of crimes which appear to have originated from the same source, and which at the same time created as much repugnance in people everywhere as the murders of Jack the Ripper, which came into the story a little later.Various people’s minds will go back to the remarkable group of foreigners who for many seasons together played a dazzling part in the life of the aristocracy here in London; and some will remember that one of them disappeared suddenly without apparent reason, leaving no trace.” Emerson's rendering suggests that Jack the Ripper will actually play a role in the Icelandic story.And as "Makt myrkranna" was believed to be an abridged translation of "Dracula", some readers started looking for (concealed) appearances of the Ripper in the original text of "Dracula", and other links between Bram Stoker and the Whitechapel murders of 1888.