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Post by dem bones on Mar 2, 2008 18:36:29 GMT
Susan Casper & Gardner Dozois (eds.) - Jack The Ripper (Futura, 1988) Foreword by Robert Bloch
Lucius Sheppard - Jack's Decline Harry Turtledove - Gentlemen Of The Shade Gregory Nicoll - Dead Air John M. Ford - Street Of Dreams Robert Bloch - Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper S. P. Somtow - Anna And The Ripper Of Siam Pat Cadigan - The Edge Karl E. Wagner - An Awareness Of Angels Stephen Gallagher - Old Red Shoes Gregory Frost - From Hell, Again Susan Casper - Spring-Fingered Jack Scott Baker - The Sins Of The Fathers Sarah Clemens - A Good Night's Work Tim Sullivan - Knucklebones Harlan Ellison - The Prowler In The City At The Edge Of The World Cooper McLaughlin - The Lodge Of Jahbulon Gene Wolfe - Game In The Pope's Head Charles L. Grant - My Shadow Is The Fog Lewis Shiner - Love In VainLike Red Jack, published to cash-in on the centenary of the murders but with the bulk of the stories written specifically for this collection. A strong line-up with many of those present playing at the top of their game. Harry Turtledove's Gentlemen Of The Shade - Vampire warfare, 1888! - reads like a prequel to William Nolan's The Final Stone as the members of the exclusive Sanguine Club band together to snuff out one of their fellow undead who's been slashing up the Whitechapel prostitutes. Susan Casper's offering finds a modern equivalent of the butcher playing a Ripper-inspired game in an Amusement Arcade. Gregory Nicoll's Dead Air sees a disc-jockey pursued in his studio when he plays Screaming Lord Sutch's Hands of Jack the Ripper. Tim Sullivan's Knucklesbones is truly gruesome, and you spend its duration hoping the sadistic kid is gonna come to justice ... Cooper McLaughin's novella, The Lodge Of Jahbulon reads like it's taken Stephen Knight's The Final Solution and rewritten it, this time as a story that doesn't pretend to be anything other than fiction! * I know, I know. That's quite enough bloody Jack the Ripper for one lifetime .... *
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Post by sean on Mar 3, 2008 10:56:28 GMT
Harlan Ellison's contribution 'The Prowler..." has to be one of the strangest Ripper stories ever written. A class piece of SF / Horror.
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