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Post by dem bones on Apr 8, 2018 11:11:27 GMT
The question is probably rather stupid, but are they all so well done? The number of 160 issues is daunting. It began life in 1994 as The Cloak & Dagger Club Newsletter, changing it's name to Ripperologist on #4. Of these early numbers, I only have #30 (Aug. 2000; bought over the counter in The Ten Bells), but if that issue is representative of the whole, then yes, the standards were always high. #30 is still the only one I've read cover to cover - have merely skimmed the digital issues (#62 to present) for articles of personal interest. There are TOC's and (frustratingly small) cover scans of the early fanzines on Casebook.orgNot seen, let alone read any pen-and-sword publications. 350 books a year? I'm not even sure '70's NEL could complete.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 23, 2018 12:04:27 GMT
Adam Wood (ed.) - Ripperologist 161 (April/ May 2018) EDITORIAL: THE BIG QUESTION Adam Wood
COURTHOUSE NOTES Joe Chetcuti
GEORGE HUTCHINSON: THE RELUCTANT WITNESS Karl Coppack
THE STORY OF A MIS-SPENT LIFE By William Onion With an Introduction and Notes by Paul Williams
Spotlight on Rippercast CAPTURING THE VICTIMS: PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS
FEIGENBAUM’S DEMURE DEFENDER: HUGH OWEN PENTECOST AND JACK THE RIPPER Nina and Howard Brown
I BEG TO REPORT
The Victorian Kitchen
FROM KETSIAP TO CATSUP TO KETCHUP Daniel Hooberry
BATMAN: GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT Dave M Gray
VICTORIAN FICTION: THE MAN OF MANY CRIMES By Guy Boothby
THE LATEST BOOK REVIEWS By Paul Begg and David GreenDirect free download Ripperologist 161
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Post by dem bones on Aug 15, 2018 19:02:12 GMT
Adam Wood [ed.] - Ripperologist #162 (June-July, 2018) EDITORIAL: THE BIG QUESTION Adam Wood
JACK IS A FEMINIST ISSUE Katherine Amin
THE NEW YORK WORLD’S E. TRACY GREAVES AND HIS SCOTLAND YARD INFORMANT Michael L Hawley
THE BIG QUESTION Did the Police Know the Identity of the Ripper?
Spotlight on Rippercast COLIN WILSON AT THE 1996 RIPPER CONFERENCE
ZAZEL – THE HUMAN CANNONBALL Heather Tweed
BEHIND BRASS BADGES AND IRON BARS Nina and Howard Brown
FORD MADOX FORD, MURDER HOUSE DETECTIVE Jan Bondeson
BATMAN: GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT Dave M Gray
VICTORIAN FICTION: GLEAMS FROM THE DARK CONTINENT: THE WIZARD OF SWAZI SWAMP Charles J. Manford
THE LATEST BOOK REVIEWS By Paul Begg and David GreenFree download "Is there something inherently misogynist about having an interest in Jack the Ripper?" The late Katherine Amin's article, edited from a talk she gave at the 2015 JTR conference, is an excellent read.
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 16, 2018 9:51:05 GMT
Spotlight on Rippercast COLIN WILSON AT THE 1996 RIPPER CONFERENCE Colin Wilson keeps popping up, doesn't he. Not sure I quite agree with him on this one: "There is a sense in which masturbation is the highest faculty that human beings have yet developed."
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 16, 2018 12:18:10 GMT
Colin Wilson keeps popping up, doesn't he. Not sure I quite agree with him on this one: "There is a sense in which masturbation is the highest faculty that human beings have yet developed." Surely he means fantasizing, not masturbation as such.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Aug 18, 2018 12:31:28 GMT
Spotlight on Rippercast COLIN WILSON AT THE 1996 RIPPER CONFERENCE Colin Wilson keeps popping up, doesn't he. Not sure I quite agree with him on this one: "There is a sense in which masturbation is the highest faculty that human beings have yet developed." This explains everything I know about Colin Wilson. He must have popped up a lot.
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Post by Swampirella on Oct 31, 2018 14:26:44 GMT
Peter Underwood - Jack The Ripper: One Hundred Years Of Mystery (Javelin, 1988) In case anybody's interested, this book as well as "Exorcism!" "Karloff..." "Deeper Into the Occult" and "The Vampire's Bedside Companion" are all free on Kindle until November 5th. Several other of his ghost books were free for a few days until yesterday at midnight, apologies for not posting about them. Introduction
The Murders Who was Jack The Ripper? Jack The Ripper: A Psychic Solution? The Writings Of The Ripper The Writings On The Ripper Ghosts Of The Ripper Thoughts On The Ripper The Ripper As Entertainment
Select Bibliography IndexBlurb: The name Jack the Ripper still causes a shudder, synonymous as it is with violent murder and mutilation. But also of mystery and speculation - for the gruesome series of killings in London's East End in that horrific Autumn of 1888 have never been finally solved.
The identity of the Ripper, his motives and his association have been the subject of endless discussion and speculation since Victorian times. Suspects have been as varied as a Jewish slaughter man and the Duke of Clarence.
Now, as the centenary of those terrible crimes arrives, comes Peter Underwood's comprehensive look at all aspects of Jack the Ripper. It contains a wealth of new and previously unpublished material with a detailed look at the possible candidates and probable identity, examinations of the murder sites, then and now, the psyche of the murderer and the murdered, the alleged ghosts and spirit contacts and a survey of all writings on the Ripper and his victims, published and unpublished, this is the definitive book, with a 100 year perspective.Plenty of Ripper ghosts in this one, some on loan from Richard Whittington-Egan and Elliott O'Donnell, others via Peter Underwood and his correspondents. The spectre of Annie Chapman gets about a bit; for several years, she and a "gentleman" were glimpsed disappearing through a door in Hanbury Street, while a woman answering to her description - "a ghostly female form in 'old fashioned' clothing": good enough for me - was driven through at Windsor Barracks in 1986 (Annie had lived nearby before tragedy and misfortune drove her to Whitechapel). The author wisely avoids volunteering a suspect of his own, instead catalogues those put forward by Ripperologists in the century since the murders. He provides many column inches to the late John Morrison's claim that convicted wife-murderer and Broadmoor escapee James Kelly was the Whitechapel Murderer. Mr. Morrison was something of a controversial figure even in Ripper Circles. A Mary Jeanette Kelly super-fan, in 1986 he paid for a marble stone to be erected on his heroine's grave, in return for which, it seems, her ghost revealed the identity of the maniac who killed her. Mr. Morrison's self-published Jimmy Kelly's Year of Ripper Murders ("This is the most authentic account ever of the Whitechapel Murders. Authentic because it is the only version that would stand up in a British Criminal Court.") is reputedly a contender for the Ripperologist equivalent of Dracula And The Virgins Of The Undead (there have been a few). The cover artwork, as reproduced by poster 'George Hutchinson' on casebook.org, is class.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Mar 15, 2019 12:42:01 GMT
JACK THE RIPPER : CASE CLOSED (Corsair Paperback, 2017) Not quite sure where to put this, but after the Agatha Christie witchfest, it's off to Ripper country with the former Conservative MP and occasional One Show reporter Gyles Brandreth, courtesy of his supersleuth, Oscar Wilde (who he?). The Irish wit and writer lives in Tite Street, Chelsea, as does Inspector Macnaghten, who, in 1894, is about to write a definitive report on the Whitechapel Murders, and wants his green-carnation wearing fop of a neighbour to cast an eye over the files as the playwright seems to know most of the suspects. Oscar's pal, Arthur Conan-Doyle is also on hand, his medical talents most useful as a woman has been...erm...'ripped' in nearby Paradise Walk, a bit of a dump by all accounts, despite poshness all around. The crazily-jumpered verbose TV pundit churned out a number of these Oscar Wilde murder mysteries - me mam bought me a few which have been gathering dust, but this one seems rather good so far.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Mar 18, 2019 13:20:26 GMT
There's been another 'modern' murder close to Tite Street, a duplication of Annie Chapman's wounds this time. Oscar's convinced it's more aimed at Macnaghten than him. ACD joined the Wildes en famille for a night out at the Russian Circus where Oscar is convinced that Michael Ostrog (Ripper Suspect ) is working, even though Scotland Yard have him down as being in a lunatic asylum in Surrey. Oscar and Arthur check out the nuthatch, and the man incarcerated there is 'someone else.' Richard Mansfield the actor is also a suspect; Oscar invites him out to lunch but is late and Mansfield storms off in a very dramatic huff. Suspect Walter Wellbeloved turns up for a séance chez Wilde, accompanying medium Mrs Mathers. Despite Oscar leading matters towards contacting Ripper victims through the veil, things head towards the late Wilde sisters, who died in tragic circumstances. Wilde and Conan Doyle are now heading towards Whitechapel to 'walk the course' as it were. Elisabeth Bathory and Gilles De Rais have been mentioned in passing.
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Post by ropardoe on Mar 19, 2019 9:13:40 GMT
JACK THE RIPPER : CASE CLOSED (Corsair Paperback, 2017) Not quite sure where to put this, but after the Agatha Christie witchfest, it's off to Ripper country with the former Conservative MP and occasional One Show reporter Gyles Brandreth, courtesy of his supersleuth, Oscar Wilde (who he?). The Irish wit and writer lives in Tite Street, Chelsea, as does Inspector Macnaghten, who, in 1894, is about to write a definitive report on the Whitechapel Murders, and wants his green-carnation wearing fop of a neighbour to cast an eye over the files as the playwright seems to know most of the suspects. Oscar's pal, Arthur Conan-Doyle is also on hand, his medical talents most useful as a woman has been...erm...'ripped' in nearby Paradise Walk, a bit of a dump by all accounts, despite poshness all around. The crazily-jumpered verbose TV pundit churned out a number of these Oscar Wilde murder mysteries - me mam bought me a few which have been gathering dust, but this one seems rather good so far. Gyles Brandreth was our local MP. We soon saw him off. I like his comic monologues on Just a Minute, etc. (and he gave up wearing the jumpers years ago), but as an MP - well, it's been Labour MPs for us ever since, thank goodness!
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Post by franklinmarsh on Mar 19, 2019 12:14:54 GMT
Hee! Five years! Erm.. back to Whitechapel. It's a gloomy spooky place, only gaslights relieving the murk of the fog, but ACD and Osc have managed to visit the murder scenes via the maze-like back streets and alleyways, had chats with a couple of coppers and Elizabeth Stride's sister, and popped into an opium den for a sarney and a bottle of beer. Getting back up West, they're beginning to look into peripheral cases, such as various torso killings.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Mar 19, 2019 16:54:06 GMT
Yipes! Nearly forgot Tom Norman's Gallery of Grotesques - Oscar's ordered an actual severed head (preserved in formaldehyde) for a performance of his play, Salome. Back to the Russian Circus for an interview with Ostrog, who seems fairly above board despite prowling the East End with a bag full of knives. Then it's off to a party at George Sims' place - everyone who is anyone is there, including a whole load of Ripper suspects, and the Reverend Dodgson, J M Barrie, Bram Stoker (it's getting like a Kim Newman novel) plus the Marquis of Queensbury, last glimpsed in the opium den stroking a whip. Oh, and Arthur has been reading Stevenson's Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Mar 21, 2019 13:24:59 GMT
JACK THE RIPPER : CASE CLOSED (Corsair Paperback, 2017) Not quite sure where to put this, but after the Agatha Christie witchfest, it's off to Ripper country with the former Conservative MP and occasional One Show reporter Gyles Brandreth, courtesy of his supersleuth, Oscar Wilde (who he?). The Irish wit and writer lives in Tite Street, Chelsea, as does Inspector Macnaghten, who, in 1894, is about to write a definitive report on the Whitechapel Murders, and wants his green-carnation wearing fop of a neighbour to cast an eye over the files as the playwright seems to know most of the suspects. Oscar's pal, Arthur Conan-Doyle is also on hand, his medical talents most useful as a woman has been...erm...'ripped' in nearby Paradise Walk, a bit of a dump by all accounts, despite poshness all around. The crazily-jumpered verbose TV pundit churned out a number of these Oscar Wilde murder mysteries - me mam bought me a few which have been gathering dust, but this one seems rather good so far. Gyles Brandreth was our local MP. We soon saw him off. I like his comic monologues on Just a Minute, etc. (and he gave up wearing the jumpers years ago), but as an MP - well, it's been Labour MPs for us ever since, thank goodness! It's Red Ro then?
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Post by ropardoe on Mar 21, 2019 19:07:56 GMT
Gyles Brandreth was our local MP. We soon saw him off. I like his comic monologues on Just a Minute, etc. (and he gave up wearing the jumpers years ago), but as an MP - well, it's been Labour MPs for us ever since, thank goodness! It's Red Ro then? No problem with that, though red does tend to run in the wash - a nice shade of purple is more my colour!
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Post by Michael Connolly on Mar 23, 2019 12:14:22 GMT
No problem with that, though red does tend to run in the wash - a nice shade of purple is more my colour! I'm bolshie too.
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