Ripper!

by Gardner Dozois (Editor), Susan Casper (Editor), Stephen Gallagher (Contributor)

Contents
xiii • Foreword (Ripper!) • essay by Robert Bloch
1 • Jack's Decline • shortstory by Lucius Shepard
19 • Gentlemen of the Shade • novelette by Harry Turtledove
58 • Dead Air • novelette by Gregory Nicoll
84 • Street of Dreams • shortstory by John M. Ford
100 • Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper • (1943) • shortstory by Robert Bloch
123 • Anna and the Ripper of Siam • novelette by S. P. Somtow
155 • The Edge • shortstory by Pat Cadigan
164 • An Awareness of Angels • shortstory by Karl Edward Wagner
182 • Old Red Shoes • shortstory by Stephen Gallagher
201 • From Hell, Again • novelette by Gregory Frost
226 • Spring-Fingered Jack • (1983) • shortstory by Susan Casper
230 • The Sins of the Fathers • novelette by Scott Baker
257 • A Good Night's Work • shortstory by Sarah Clemens
265 • Knucklebones • novelette by Tim Sullivan
297 • The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World • (1967) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
323 • The Lodge of Jahbulon • novella by Cooper McLaughlin
384 • Game in the Pope's Head • shortstory by Gene Wolfe
392 • My Shadow Is the Fog • shortstory by Charles L. Grant
403 • Love in Vain • novelette by Lewis Shiner
428 • Further Reading (Ripper!) • essay by Gardner Dozois and Susan Casper

Genres: Horror, Anthologies

427 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 1988

About the author

Gardner Raymond Dozois was an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004. He won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, both as an editor and a writer of short fiction.
Wikipedia entry: Gardner Dozois

http://us.macmillan.com/author/gardne...

Reviews

[Riju Ganguly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Despite being almost three and half decades old, this anthology manages to surprise and shock the reader with its stories— as I found out.
It contains, apart from an interesting 'Foreword' from Robert Bloch, nineteen stories. Some of them were brilliant, some were plodding, but every one of them were readable, throwing a different type of light (or fog, if you prefer) on the killings.
My favourites, in no particular order, were~
1. Lucius Shepard's "jack['s Decline";
2. Harry Turtledove's "Gentlemen of the Shade";
3. John M. Ford's "Street of Dreams";
4. Robert Bloch's "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper"— the classic, without which no anthology is complete;
5. Pat Cadigan's "The Edge";
6. Karl Edward Wagner's "An Awareness of Angels"— the BEST story of this book;
7. Gregory Frost's "From Hell, Again";
8. Susan Casper's "Spring-Fingered Jack";
9. Scott Baker's "The Sins of the Fathers"— undoubtedly the most chilling tale;
10. Tim Sullivan's "Knucklebones"— another breathtakingly dark tale;
11. Cooper McLaughlin's "The Lodge of Jahbulon"— a fictionised version of Stephen Knight's theory (with the addition of Sherlock Holmes it could have become 'Murder By Decree').
Several of the stories went so deep into allegory and surrealism that they lost themselves. But, I repeat, every single one was readable.
Recommended.

[Ryan Thompson · Rating 4 out of 5]

A little too long/ one too many stories but a Saucy read indeed!

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one is hard to rate as there are a bevy of REALLY REALLY good short stories in this collection...but there are also a few that make you go 'uh this writer has problems with women'.

There are more good stories in this collection than bad but the bad ones are REAL bad.

Hard to read through the whole thing because the details of the Jack the Ripper case are NOT pleasant, especially when so many of these stories put you in the mind of the killer.