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Red Jack (Greenberg et al.)
Casebook Message Boards: Ripper Media: Specific Titles:
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Red Jack (Greenberg et al.)
Author: Scott A. Munro
Thursday, 19 November 1998 - 08:03 pm |        | In order to have a fully-rounded view of Jack the Ripper's effect on society, one must be familiar with Ripper fiction, of which probably the best-known examples are Robert Bloch's "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper," Harlan Ellison's "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World," and the novels The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes and A Study in Terror (aka Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper) by Ellery Queen.
The good news is, they're all in this book.
The volume is rounded out by Ray Russell's "Sagittarius," William F. Nolan's "Bridge Across Time," "The Whitechapel Wantons" by Vincent McConnor, and "Jack's Little Friend" by Ramsey Campbell.
The quality of the stories is uneven, as one must expect in a single-subject collection, and you should ignore completely the "facts" in the introduction, particularly the description of a "typical" Ripper killing (which is pure Hollywood claptrap). But the opportunity to acquire in a single volume the best-known Ripper fiction should not be passed up. |
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