The big book of Jack the Ripper
By: edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 848
ISBN-13: 9781101971130
Subjects: Fiction; American Historical fiction; American Detective and mystery stories; Serial murderers; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: "Vintage Crime/Black Lizard."

"A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard original"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: The true story --; title: Victims in the night  -- David Abrahamsen; title: The Jack the Ripper murders  -- Anonymous; title: Key texts  -- Witness statements, autopsy reports, The "Ripper letters"; title: London's ghastley mystery  -- Anonymous; title: The east end murders: detailed lessons  -- Anonymous; title: Blood money to Whitechapel  -- George Bernard Shaw; title: Who was Jack the Ripper?  -- Peter Underwood; title: Mystery solved!  -- Anonymous; title: "Frenchy"---Ameer Ben Ali  -- Edwin M. Borchard; title: Jack be nimble, Jack be quick  -- Stephen Hunter; title: Copy murders and others  -- Robin Odell; title: In the fourth ward  -- Theodora Benson; title: Jack  -- Anne Perry; title: Spring-fingered Jack  -- Susan Casper; title: The uncertain heiress  -- Isak Dinesen; title: Knucklebones  -- Tim Sullivan; title: A kind of madness  -- Anthony Boucher; title: The sparrow and the lark  -- Lindsay Faye; title: Guardian angel  -- Gwendolyn Frame; title: In the slaughteryard  -- Anonymous; title: The lodger (short story)  -- Marie Belloc Lowndes; title: The sins of the fathers  -- Scott Baker; title: Don't fear the ripper  -- Holly West; title: The mysterious card unveiled  -- Cleveland Moffett; title: Jack be quick  -- Barbara Paul; title: A matter of blood  -- Jeffery Deaver; title: A study in terror  -- Ellery Queen; title: G.I. Jack  -- Loren D. Estleman; title: The legacy  -- R.L. Stevens; title: Jack's little friend  -- Ramsey Campbell; title: The stripper  -- H. H. Holmes; title: The ripper experience  -- Danie Stashower; title: The treasure of Jack the Ripper  -- Edward D. Hoch; title: The hands of Mr. Ottermole  -- Thomas Burke; title: Yours truly, Jack the Ripper  -- Robert Bloch; title: A toy for Juliette  -- Robert Bloch; title: The prowler in the city at edge of the world  -- Harlan Ellison; title: Gentleman of the shade  -- Harry Turtledove; title: the adventure of the Grinder's whistle  -- Howard Waldrop; title: Sagittarius  -- Ray Russell; title: The demon spell  -- Hume Nisbet; title: My shadow is the fog  -- Charles L. Grant; title: By Flower and Dean Street  -- Patrice Chaplin / -- The final Stone / -- William F. Nolan; title: the gatecrasher  -- R. Chetwynd-Hayes; title: A punishment to fit the crimes  -- Richard A. Gordon; title: From hell again  -- Gregory Frost; title: An awareness of angels  -- Karl Edward Wagner; title: A most unusual murder  -- Robert Bloch; title: Jack the Ripper in hell -- Stephen Hunter.