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Post by dem bones on Oct 1, 2016 12:28:41 GMT
Out now, Otto Penzler (ed.) - The Big Book Of Jack The Ripper (Vintage /Black Lizard, Oct. 2016) 
"Non-fiction"
David Abrahamsen - Victims in the Night
Anonymous - The Jack the Ripper Murders
Maxim Jakubowski & Nathan Braund - Key Texts: Witness Statements, Autopsy Reports, The “Ripper Letters”
Anonymous - London’s Ghastly Mystery
Anonymous - The East End Murders: Detailed Lessons
George Bernard Shaw - Blood Money to Whitechapel
Peter Underwood - Who Was Jack the Ripper?
Anonymous - Mystery Solved!
Edwin M. Borchard - “Frenchy”—Ameer Ben Ali
Stephen Hunter - Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick
Robin Odell - Copy Murders and Others
Fiction:
Theodora Benson - In the Fourth Ward
Anne Perry - Jack
Susan Casper - Spring-Fingered Jack
Isak Dinesen - The Uncertain Heiress
Tim Sullivan - Knucklebones
Anthony Boucher - A Kind of Madness
Lyndsay Faye - The Sparrow and the Lark
Boris Akunin - The Decorator
Gwendolyn Frame - Guardian Angel
Anonymous - In the Slaughteryard
Marie Belloc Lowndes - The Lodger (short version)
Marie Belloc Lowndes - The Lodger (novel)
Scott Baker - The Sins of the Fathers
Holly West - Don’t Fear the Ripper
Cleveland Moffett - The Mysterious Card Unveiled
Barbara Paul - Jack Be Quick
Jeffery Deaver - A Matter of Blood
Ellery Queen - A Study in Terror
G. I. Jack by Loren D. Estleman
R. L. Stevens - The Legacy
Ramsey Campbell - Jack’s Little Friend
H. H. Holmes - The Stripper
Daniel Stashower - The Ripper Experience
Edward D. Hoch - The Treasure of Jack the Ripper
Thomas Burke - The Hands of Mr. Ottermole
Robert Bloch - Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
Robert Bloch - A Toy for Juliette
Harlan Ellison - The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World
Harry Turtledove - Gentleman of the Shade
Howard Waldrop - The Adventure of the Grinder’s Whistle
Ray Russell - Sagittarius
Hume Nisbet - The Demon Spell
Charles L. Grant - My Shadow is the Fog
Patrice Chaplin - By Flower and Dean Street
William F. Nolan - The Final Stone
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - The Gatecrasher
Richard A. Gordon - A Punishment to Fit the Crimes
Gregory Frost - From Hell Again
Karl Edward Wagner - An Awareness of Angels
Robert Bloch - A Most Unusual Murder
Stephen Hunter - Jack the Ripper in HellThe master of paving slab compilations returns with a typically massive 848 pages of, mostly fiction (i.e., the stuff which advertises itself as such, not to be confused with the "non-fiction" which occupies the book's opening 130 or so pages). As is the case with Mr. Penzler's previous shelf-buster, The Vampire Archives, much of Big Book Of Jack The Ripper is culled from previous anthologies, primarily Michel Parry's Jack The Knife, Susan Casper & Gardner Dozois' Jack The Ripper, and Martin Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh & Frank D. McSherry's Red Jack, supplemented by a smattering of stray pieces and originals for added appeal. Wish I could say I'm not the least tempted, but ... |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 1, 2016 13:07:19 GMT
Out now, Otto Penzler (ed.) - The Big Book Of Jack The Ripper (Vintage /Black Lizard, Oct. 2016) 
"Non-fiction"
David Abrahamsen - Victims in the Night
Anonymous - The Jack the Ripper Murders
Maxim Jakubowski & Nathan Braund - Key Texts: Witness Statements, Autopsy Reports, The “Ripper Letters”
Anonymous - London’s Ghastly Mystery
Anonymous - The East End Murders: Detailed Lessons
George Bernard Shaw - Blood Money to Whitechapel
Peter Underwood - Who Was Jack the Ripper?
Anonymous - Mystery Solved!
Edwin M. Borchard - “Frenchy”—Ameer Ben Ali
Stephen Hunter - Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick
Robin Odell - Copy Murders and Others
Fiction:
Theodora Benson - In the Fourth Ward
Anne Perry - Jack
Susan Casper - Spring-Fingered Jack
Isak Dinesen - The Uncertain Heiress
Tim Sullivan - Knucklebones
Anthony Boucher - A Kind of Madness
Lyndsay Faye - The Sparrow and the Lark
Boris Akunin - The Decorator
Gwendolyn Frame - Guardian Angel
Anonymous - In the Slaughteryard
Marie Belloc Lowndes - The Lodger (short version)
Marie Belloc Lowndes - The Lodger (novel)
Scott Baker - The Sins of the Fathers
Holly West - Don’t Fear the Ripper
Cleveland Moffett - The Mysterious Card Unveiled
Barbara Paul - Jack Be Quick
Jeffery Deaver - A Matter of Blood
Ellery Queen - A Study in Terror
G. I. Jack by Loren D. Estleman
R. L. Stevens - The Legacy
Ramsey Campbell - Jack’s Little Friend
H. H. Holmes - The Stripper
Daniel Stashower - The Ripper Experience
Edward D. Hoch - The Treasure of Jack the Ripper
Thomas Burke - The Hands of Mr. Ottermole
Robert Bloch - Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
Robert Bloch - A Toy for Juliette
Harlan Ellison - The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World
Harry Turtledove - Gentleman of the Shade
Howard Waldrop - The Adventure of the Grinder’s Whistle
Ray Russell - Sagittarius
Hume Nisbet - The Demon Spell
Charles L. Grant - My Shadow is the Fog
Patrice Chaplin - By Flower and Dean Street
William F. Nolan - The Final Stone
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - The Gatecrasher
Richard A. Gordon - A Punishment to Fit the Crimes
Gregory Frost - From Hell Again
Karl Edward Wagner - An Awareness of Angels
Robert Bloch - A Most Unusual Murder
Stephen Hunter - Jack the Ripper in HellThe master of paving slab compilations returns with a typically massive 848 pages of, mostly fiction (i.e., the stuff which advertises itself as such, not to be confused with the "non-fiction" which occupies the book's opening 130 or so pages). As is the case with Mr. Penzler's previous shelf-buster, The Vampire Archives, much of Big Book Of Jack The Ripper is culled from previous anthologies, primarily Michel Parry's Jack The Knife, Susan Casper & Gardner Dozois' Jack The Ripper, and Martin Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh & Frank D. McSherry's Red Jack, supplemented by a smattering of stray pieces and originals for added appeal. Wish I could say I'm not the least tempted, but ... by Ellery Queen is worth reading. It's the first (English-language) Sherlock Holmes novel not written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It re-writes about half of the original script for the film (regularly on the the Horror Channel) and provides a new ending. |
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Post by ripper on Oct 2, 2016 9:05:14 GMT
I think Michael has nailed it. 'A Study in Terror' was the piece that really jumped out at me when scanning the contents.
Another entry that intrigued me was 'The Stripper' by H. H. Holmes. Of course, H. H. Holmes was an American serial killer roughly contemporaneous with JTR, so I couldn't resist doing a little digging. It seems that 'The Stripper' appeared in a 1945 issue of 'Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine' and 'H. H. Holmes' was a name under which Anthony Boucher sometimes wrote for that publication.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 2, 2016 18:13:59 GMT
Am also a fan of A Study In Terror. Patrice Chaplin's By Flower And Dean Street is another cracking novella. Truth is, I like loads of the stories in the book, God help me. Of the originals, the one that most intrigues is Daniel Stashower's The Ripper Experience which, with a title like that, surely has to be centred around a tour, or a waxwork emporium, or even, if we are truly blessed, a "museum"? |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 3, 2016 12:27:58 GMT
I think Michael has nailed it. 'A Study in Terror' was the piece that really jumped out at me when scanning the contents. Another entry that intrigued me was 'The Stripper' by H. H. Holmes. Of course, H. H. Holmes was an American serial killer roughly contemporaneous with JTR, so I couldn't resist doing a little digging. It seems that 'The Stripper' appeared in a 1945 issue of 'Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine' and 'H. H. Holmes' was a name under which Anthony Boucher sometimes wrote for that publication. I wrote an article about Anthony Boucher for The Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter 14 2008. H. H. Holmes's real name was Herman Webster Mudgett (I am not making this up). "The Stripper", which is about a serial killer who murders while naked, is also included in Exeunt Murderers: The Best Mystery Stories of Anthony Boucher, edited by Francis M. Nevins and Martin H. Greenberg (Southern Illinois University Press, 1983). |
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Post by ripper on Oct 3, 2016 14:49:41 GMT
Thank you, Michael. Interesting about HHH's birth name. I don't know if H. H. Holmes was not so well known in the 1940s, so maybe people didn't twig to the significance of the name when Boucher used it, but I can't see any editor today accepting a piece from someone using the name Myra Hindley for example.
Dem, the Stashower tale is, I believe, from a section of Penzler's book dealing with fiction tales of JTR's legacy, so you might be right about it being set on a tour or similar.
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 3, 2016 15:12:36 GMT
Thank you, Michael. Interesting about HHH's birth name. I don't know if H. H. Holmes was not so well known in the 1940s, so maybe people didn't twig to the significance of the name when Boucher used it, but I can't see any editor today accepting a piece from someone using the name Myra Hindley for example. Dem, the Stashower tale is, I believe, from a section of Penzler's book dealing with fiction tales of JTR's legacy, so you might be right about it being set on a tour or similar. H.H. Holmes had died fifty odd years before the 1940s, so there probably weren't any people around by then with personal memories of his victims and no one to get offended. I didn't know anything at all about Holmes until the episode in season two of Supernatural which involved him. It was a good one (but then hidden passages and secret places in apartment blocks always appeal): "H.H. Holmes is haunting the apartment building which was erected over the site where he was hung. In a similar arrangement to the infamous Holmes Murder Castle in Chicago, he is trapping women in a hidden room. Jo is captured by him, and Sam and Dean find a way to access the room via the sewers, and rescue Jo, and another kidnapped girl, Teresa Ellis. Jo then acts as bait, and they trap H.H. Holmes inside a ring of salt. Dean then 'borrows' a cement truck and they seal the room forever." |
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Post by ripper on Oct 3, 2016 16:16:16 GMT
Thanks, Rosemary. Back then, I think that people just didn't get offended to the extent that they do today, so even if H. H. Holmes name had been recognised, most readers would have probably just shrugged, whereas today people seem so much more willing to take offence, or pretend to as it is the trendy thing to do--I cannot make up my mind just how much offence that is generated in today's world is real or not. Anyway, I bet Boucher had a wry smile over using that name.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Oct 3, 2016 16:54:17 GMT
Much later, Bloch wrote a novel about the original H H Holmes, AMERICAN GOTHIC. I have it somewhere.
Edit: Sorry, I see Anthony Boucher was the one who used the pseudonym, so what does Robert Bloch have to do with it, you might well ask. Well, there it is anyway.
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Post by ropardoe on Oct 3, 2016 17:39:01 GMT
Thanks, Rosemary. Back then, I think that people just didn't get offended to the extent that they do today, so even if H. H. Holmes name had been recognised, most readers would have probably just shrugged, whereas today people seem so much more willing to take offence, or pretend to as it is the trendy thing to do--I cannot make up my mind just how much offence that is generated in today's world is real or not. Anyway, I bet Boucher had a wry smile over using that name. I agree. I especially dislike it when folk get offended on behalf of others. This has happened to me as a disabled person: it's patronising in the extreme. Let me be the judge of what offends me. |
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Post by dem bones on Oct 3, 2016 19:44:25 GMT
Much later, Bloch wrote a novel about the original H H Holmes, AMERICAN GOTHIC. I have it somewhere. . Dem, the Stashower tale is, I believe, from a section of Penzler's book dealing with fiction tales of JTR's legacy, so you might be right about it being set on a tour or similar. According to Kirkus, "an enterprising group’s staging of “the Ripper experience” runs into predictable complications" so seems we're on the right track. Love the kiss off "But if you finish this monumental collection and find yourself with an appetite for more, consider seeking professional help." |
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Post by jamesdoig on Oct 3, 2016 20:17:44 GMT
I didn't know anything at all about Holmes until the episode in season two of Supernatural which involved him. There's a decent true crime book about him called The Devil in the White City, evidently soon to be filmed with Leonardo de Caprio. |
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Post by ripper on Oct 4, 2016 10:48:14 GMT
Much later, Bloch wrote a novel about the original H H Holmes, AMERICAN GOTHIC. I have it somewhere. . Dem, the Stashower tale is, I believe, from a section of Penzler's book dealing with fiction tales of JTR's legacy, so you might be right about it being set on a tour or similar. According to Kirkus, "an enterprising group’s staging of “the Ripper experience” runs into predictable complications" so seems we're on the right track. Love the kiss off "But if you finish this monumental collection and find yourself with an appetite for more, consider seeking professional help." Nice to hear that, Dem  . I don't have any volume of JTR fiction stories and Otto Penzler's anthology is quite tempting, though the other candidates have their strong points as well. |
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Post by bobby on Oct 5, 2016 22:52:32 GMT
I didn't know anything at all about Holmes until the episode in season two of Supernatural which involved him. There's a decent true crime book about him called The Devil in the White City, evidently soon to be filmed with Leonardo de Caprio. Another book about H. H. Holmes is Depraved by Harold Schechter. (Schechter also wrote a book about Ed Gein, Deviant.) |
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