The big book of Jack the Ripper stories

Summary: "A new anthology from Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler, centered around the historical enigma whose name has become synonymous with fear: Jack the Ripper. A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL. Of all the real-life serial killers whose gruesome deeds have splashed across headlines throughout human history, few have reached the near-mythical status of Jack the Ripper. Terrorizing the world with a rash of violent murders in London's East End in the fall of 1888, Saucy Jack seemed to vanish just as quickly, leaving future generations to speculate upon his identity and whereabouts--and living on in some of the most spectacularly unnerving fiction ever written. Collected here, for the first time ever, are forty-one tales featuring the infamous slasher, from classics by Marie Belloc-Lowndes, Robert Bloch, and Ellery Queen to never-before-seen stories by contemporary masters Jeffery Deaver, Loren D. Estleman, Lyndsay Faye, and many more. Also featured in this volume are essential true-crime artifacts of Jack the Ripper lore, including genuine witness statements, autopsy reports, contemporary news articles, and astonishing theories from the world's foremost Ripperologists--as is only proper for a case that is truly as chilling as fiction"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781101971130 (trade paperback)
Physical Description: print
xv, 848 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, [2016]

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Vintage Crime/Black Lizard"

Formatted Contents Note:

Victims in the night -- The Jack the Ripper murders -- Key texts -- London's ghastly mystery -- The East End murders: Detailed lessons -- Blood money to Whitechapel -- Who was Jack the Ripper? -- Mystery solved! -- "Frenchy" - Ameer Ben Ali -- Jack be nimble, Jack be quick -- Copy murders and others -- In the fourth ward -- Jack -- Spring-fingered Jack -- The uncertain heiress -- Knucklebones -- A kind of madness -- The sparrow and the lark -- The decorator -- Guardian angel -- In the slaughteryard -- The lodger -- The sins of the fathers -- Don't fear the Ripper -- The mysterious card unveiled -- Jack be quick -- A matter of blood -- A study in terror -- G.I. Jack -- The legacy -- Jack's little friend -- The stripper -- The Ripper experience -- The treasure of Jack the Ripper -- The hands of Mr. Ottermole -- Yours truly, Jack the Ripper -- A toy for Juliette -- The prowler in the city at the edge of the world -- Gentleman of the shade -- The adventure of the grinder's whistle -- Sagittarius -- The demon spell -- My shadow is the fog -- By Flower and Dean street -- The final stone -- The gatecrasher -- A punishment to fit the crimes -- From hell again -- An awareness of angels -- A most unusual murder -- Jack the Ripper in hell.