July 13, 2020
Hands of the Ripper opens across the U.S. in 1972. The Hammer horror film is one of director Peter Sasdy’s several films featuring a female protagonist, in this case, Jack The Ripper’s daughter. The film remain...
130 Years On, Jack The Ripper’s Shadow Is Still Long
In the wee small hours of Aug. 31, 1888, the body of Mary Ann Nichols was found. Her mutilated remains laid in a puddle of blood in Buck’s Row, a particularly unsavory corner of the poor, downtrodden Whitechape...
Ripper Anniversary: What To Watch
The series of unsolved bloody murders of poor women left smokey, Victorian London terrified and transfixed 130 years ago. The obsession also made for great fiction and wild speculation as to who the killer was ...
Ripper Anniversary: What To Read
The publishing world has always been the most fertile for Ripper-related works. Though flooded with bargain basement accountings of the murders and speculative works on the killer's identity, there's quality fi...