Jack the Ripper - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1800240295 ISBN 13: 9781800240292

Verlag: Head of Zeus, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Fact. Fiction. Legend.
The predatory ritual, the escalating savagery of the crimes, the grisly trophies taken from his victim's bodies, the games played with his pursuers, the cannibalism: Jack the Ripper's reign of terror in London's East End during the autumn of 1888 casts a long shadow.

Many have murdered more, but few have killed so brutally and none have forged such an enduring legend. For a century and a quarter the Ripper's crimes have appalled and fascinated in equal measure, inspiring over one hundred theories about this prototypical serial killer's identity and spawning thousands of works of fiction. This collection is the ultimate exploration of the Ripper legend. It sifts through Jack's legacy, blending the true story (told via contemporary reports and a century's worth of the best analysis) with the best crime and horror fiction his depraved deeds have inspired.

Some of these stories are classics, some have been written especially for this volume. Including writing from Jeffery Deaver, Anne Perry, George Bernard Shaw, Ellery Queen, Boris Akunin, Ramsey Campbell, Harlan Ellison and Robert Bloch.

'1000 pages of fascinating Ripperama' The Times

'Otto has assembled a truly stellar cast of contributors' Shots Magazine

'Fascinating and thought-provoking. Not a stone is left unturned in this vast exploration of all the horrors that Jack the Ripper committed' The Bookbag

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Otto Penzler, series editor, is the founder of the Mysterious Press (1975), Mysterious Press.com (2011) and New York City's Mysterious Bookshop (1979). He has won a Raven, the Ellery Queen Award, two Edgars and lifetime achievement awards from Noircon and The Strand Magazine. He has edited more than 70 anthologies and written extensively about crime fiction.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Head of Zeus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1800240295
• ISBN 13: 9781800240292
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1008
• Herausgeber: Penzler Otto
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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