Tales of Jack the Ripper
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (884 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1939905001 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 258 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Tales of Jack the Ripper manages to walk that fine line between entertainment and exploitation with real finesse. You need to get up off your lazy duff and buy this collection."-Shock Totem"there are enough original and inventive approaches to this most bedeviling of true-crime mysteries to suggest that Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel Murders of 1888 will continue to inspire imaginative speculations for some time to come." -Stefan Dziemianowicz, Locus"Tales of Jack the Ripper marks a strong debut for Word Horde. This doesn't mean you can pigeonhole Tales of Jack the Ripper. Horror fans in general should be quite pleased."-Tangent "The bottom line is these are all excellent stories, all about Jack."-Hellnotes. Lockhart, in usual f
Anita Eva said Superb Jack the Ripper Anthology. It's not always easy for authors to make such a well-worn, popular trope in a particular genre seem fresh or new, or interesting to readers who feel as though they know the story already and what other angles could there possibly be? The authors in this anthology, a healthy mix of veterans mingled with up-and-comers, as it turns . "Funny Little Games" I know what everyone knows about Jack the Ripper: Whitechapel serial murderer of the late 19th Century. Five victims, all prostitutes. Taunting missives to the authorities. Some odd, ritualistic elements to the crime scenes. Never caught, and so the bogeyman figure of Jack is shadowed in conspiracy and horror to this day. And tha. Rippers Past and Present Anthony R. Cardno Is there anyone who reads genre fiction who isn't in some way interested in, if not obsessed with, Jack the Ripper? Jack, or versions of him, has appeared in mystery fiction, science fiction, fantasy and of course horror and I wouldn't be surprised to learn he's appeared in western stories too. Lockhart's volume contains only fi
. Lockhart lives in an old church in Petaluma, California, with his wife Jennifer, hundreds of books, and Elinor Phantom, a Shih Tzu moonlighting as his editorial assistant. ROSS E. A lifelong fan of supernatural, fantastic, speculative, and weird fiction, Lockhart is a veteran of small-press publishing, having edited scores of well-regarded novels of horro
Since then, hundreds of stories have been written about Bloody Jack, his victims, and his legacy. The story of Jack the Ripper captured lurid headlines and the public's imagination, and the first fictionalization of the Ripper killings, John Francis Brewer's The Curse Upon Mitre Square appeared in October of 1888, mere weeks after the discovery of Jack's first victim. Catherine Tobler, and many more.. With each slaying, the killer grows bolder, his crimes more extreme. Sargent, E. So far, there have been five victims (that we know of): Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. 1888: A killer stalks the streets of London's Whitechapel district, brutally--some would say ritualistically--murdering women. Now, as we arrive at the quasquicentennial of the murders, we bring you a few tales more. Authors ranging from Marie Belloc Lowndes to Robert Bloch; from Harlan Ellison to Maureen Johnson; from R