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The Big Book of Jack the Ripper

Edited by Otto Penzler

Edited by Otto Penzler

Edited by Otto Penzler

Edited by Otto Penzler

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Category: Crime Fiction

Category: Crime Fiction

Paperback $25.00

Oct 04, 2016 | ISBN 9781101971130

Ebook $9.99

Oct 04, 2016 | ISBN 9781101971147

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    About The Big Book of Jack the Ripper

    Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler’s latest anthology takes its inspiration from the historical enigma whose name has become synonymous with fear: Jack the Ripper.
     
    Of the real-life serial killers whose gruesome acts have been splashed across headlines, none has reached the mythical status of Jack the Ripper. In the Ripper’s wake, terror swept through the streets of London’s East End in the fall of 1888. As quickly as his nightmarish reign came, Saucy Jack vanished without a trace—leaving future generations to speculate upon his identity and whereabouts. He was diabolical in a way never seen before—a killer who taunted the police, came up with his own legendary monikers, and, ultimately, got away with his heinous crimes.

    More than a century later, the man “from hell” continues to live on in the imaginations of readers everywhere—and in some of the most spec­tacularly unnerving stories, both fiction and nonfiction, ever written. The Big Book of Jack the Ripper immerses you in the utterly chilling world of Red Jack’s London, where his unprecedented evil still lurks.
     
    Including:
    · Legendary stories by Marie Belloc Lowndes, Robert Bloch, and Ellery Queen
    · Captivating essays from George Bernard Shaw, Stephen Hunter, and Peter Underwood
    · Riveting new stories by contemporary masters Jeffrey Deaver, Loren D. Estleman, Lyndsay Faye, and many more
    · Astonishing theories from the world’s foremost Ripperologists
     
    From the Ripper Vault:
    · Demonic letters from Jack himself
    · Gruesome postmortem exams documenting all the bits and pieces of the cases
    · Harrowing witness statements taken on those hellish nights
    · Breaking newspaper accounts of the East End hysteria

    About The Big Book of Jack the Ripper

    Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler’s latest anthology takes its inspiration from the historical enigma whose name has become synonymous with fear: Jack the Ripper.
     
    Of the real-life serial killers whose gruesome acts have been splashed across headlines, none has reached the mythical status of Jack the Ripper. In the Ripper’s wake, terror swept through the streets of London’s East End in the fall of 1888. As quickly as his nightmarish reign came, Saucy Jack vanished without a trace—leaving future generations to speculate upon his identity and whereabouts. He was diabolical in a way never seen before—a killer who taunted the police, came up with his own legendary monikers, and, ultimately, got away with his heinous crimes.

    More than a century later, the man “from hell” continues to live on in the imaginations of readers everywhere—and in some of the most spec­tacularly unnerving stories, both fiction and nonfiction, ever written. The Big Book of Jack the Ripper immerses you in the utterly chilling world of Red Jack’s London, where his unprecedented evil still lurks.
     
    Including:
    · Legendary stories by Marie Belloc Lowndes, Robert Bloch, and Ellery Queen
    · Captivating essays from George Bernard Shaw, Stephen Hunter, and Peter Underwood
    · Riveting new stories by contemporary masters Jeffrey Deaver, Loren D. Estleman, Lyndsay Faye, and many more
    · Astonishing theories from the world’s foremost Ripperologists
     
    From the Ripper Vault:
    · Demonic letters from Jack himself
    · Gruesome postmortem exams documenting all the bits and pieces of the cases
    · Harrowing witness statements taken on those hellish nights
    · Breaking newspaper accounts of the East End hysteria

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    About Otto Penzler

    Otto Penzler, proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, founded The Mysterious Press in 1975, now an imprint at Grove/Atlantic, and publishes classic crime fiction through MysteriousPress.com. Penzler has won two Edgar Awards, MWA’s Ellery Queen Award and the Raven…. More about Otto Penzler

    About Otto Penzler

    Otto Penzler, proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City, founded The Mysterious Press in 1975, now an imprint at Grove/Atlantic, and publishes classic crime fiction through MysteriousPress.com. Penzler has won two Edgar Awards, MWA’s Ellery Queen Award and the Raven…. More about Otto Penzler

    Product Details

    Category: Crime Fiction

    Paperback | $25.00
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Oct 04, 2016 | 864 Pages | 7 x 9-1/8 | ISBN 9781101971130

    Category: Crime Fiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    Oct 04, 2016 | 752 Pages | ISBN 9781101971147

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    Praise

    Advance Praise for Otto Penzler and The Big Book of Jack the Ripper

    “A monumental collection. . . . [Penzler] leaves no stone unturned.” —Kirkus Reviews

    “Ambitious [and] comprehensive. . . . As with previous Big Books, Penzler’s dogged research has enabled him to include undeservedly obscure stories. . . . High-quality tales original to this volume, from such 21st-century masters as Daniel Stashower, Lyndsay Faye, and Jeffery Deaver, are another bonus.” —Publishers Weekly 
     
    “If there’s some star around which the mystery world orbits, it might well be Otto Penzler, who is widely considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on the genre.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
           
    “Readers familiar with Penzler. . . . want to be him when they grow up. . . . He’s a fantastic judge of what his readers want.” —The Seattle Times

    “When Mr. Penzler speaks, the mystery world listens.” —The Wall Street Journal

    Table Of Contents

    Introduction by Otto Penzler



    THE TRUE STORY

    Victims in the Night
    David Abrahamsen

    The Jack the Ripper Murders
    Anonymous

    Key Texts
    Witness Statements
    Autopsy Reports
    The “Ripper Letters”
    Maxim Jakubowski and Nathan Braund, eds.

    London’s Ghastly Mystery
    Anonymous

    The East End Murders: Detailed Lessons
    Anonymous

    Blood Money to Whitechapel
    George Bernard Shaw

    Who Was Jack the Ripper?
    Peter Underwood  

    Mystery Solved!
    Anonymous

    “Frenchy”—Ameer Ben Ali
    Edwin M. Borchard

    Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick
    Stephen Hunter

    Copy Murders and Others
    Robin Odell



    MYSTERY, CRIME, SUSPENSE—STORIES

    In the Fourth Ward
    Theodora Benson

    Jack
    Anne Perry

    Spring-Fingered Jack
    Susan Casper

    The Uncertain Heiress
    Isak Dinesen

    Knucklebones
    Tim Sullivan

    A Kind of Madness
    Anthony Boucher

    The Sparrow and the Lark
    Lyndsay Faye

    The Decorator
    Boris Akunin

    Guardian Angel
    Gwendolyn Frame  

    In the Slaughteryard
    Anonymous

    The Lodger (short story)
    Marie Belloc Lowndes

    The Lodger (novel)
    Marie Belloc Lowndes

    The Sins of the Fathers
    Scott Baker

    Don’t Fear the Ripper
    Holly West

    The Mysterious Card Unveiled
    Cleveland Moffett

    Jack Be Quick
    Barbara Paul

    A Matter of Blood
    Jeffery Deaver

    A Study in Terror
    Ellery Queen


     
    RED JACK—AN INSPIRATION

    G.I. Jack
    Loren D. Estleman

    The Legacy
    R. L. Stevens

    Jack’s Little Friend
    Ramsey Campbell

    The Stripper
    H. H. Holmes

    The Ripper Experience
    Daniel Stashower

    The Treasure of Jack the Ripper
    Edward D. Hoch

    The Hands of Mr. Ottermole
    Thomas Burke



    SAUCY JACK—TIMELESS

    Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
    Robert Bloch

    A Toy for Juliette
    Robert Bloch

    The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World
    Harlan Ellison

    Gentleman of the Shade
    Harry Turtledove

    The Adventure of the Grinder’s Whistle
    Howard Waldrop

    Sagittarius
    Ray Russell

    The Demon Spell
    Hume Nisbet

    My Shadow is the Fog
    Charles L. Grant

    By Flower and Dean Street
    Patrice Chaplin

    The Final Stone
    William F. Nolan  

    The Gatecrasher
    R. Chetwynd-Hayes

    A Punishment to Fit the Crimes
    Richard A. Gordon

    From Hell Again
    Gregory Frost

    An Awareness of Angels
    Karl Edward Wagner

    A Most Unusual Murder
    Robert Bloch

    Jack the Ripper in Hell
    Stephen Hunter

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