The Watcher: A Jack the Ripper Story

by A.L. Butcher

The year is 1888, and the place is Whitechapel, in the very heart of London. But the heart is bleeding. A mysterious killer is stalking women of the streets - his true name is unknown but his legend will go down in history. This is a short tale of Jack the Ripper.

18 rated for scenes of violence.
A Short story

ebook

Published August 12, 2017

About the author

British-born A. L. Butcher is an avid reader and creator of worlds, a poet, and a dreamer, a lover of science, natural history, history, and monkeys. Her prose has been described as ‘dark and gritty’ and her poetry as ‘evocative’. She writes with a sure and sometimes erotic sensibility of things that might have been, never were, but could be.
Alex is the author of the Light Beyond the Storm Chronicles and the Tales of Erana lyrical fantasy series. She also has several short stories in the fantasy, fantasy romance genres with occasional forays into gothic style horror, including the Legacy of the Mask series. With a background in politics, classical studies, ancient history and myth, her affinities bring an eclectic and unique flavour in her work, mixing reality and dream in alchemical proportions that bring her characters and worlds to life.
She also curates for a number of speculative fiction themed book bundles on BundleRabbit.
Her short novella Outside the Walls, co-written with Diana L. Wicker received a Chill with a Book Reader’s Award in 2017 and The Kitchen Imps won best fantasy for 2018 on NN Light Book Heaven.

Alex is also proud to be a writer for Perseid Press where her work features in Heroika: Dragon Eaters; and Lovers in Hell – part of the acclaimed Heroes in Hell series. http://www.theperseidpress.com/


http://libraryoferana.wordpress.com/

Reviews

[Kathleen Harryman · Rating 5 out of 5]

This audiobook plunges the listener into the life of Jack the Ripper and that of one of his victims. The author holds nothing back in his description as Jack the Ripper selects his victim and kills her. You can feel the victims fear as she walks the street to earn her living, aware that there is a serial killer stalking the streets of London, she has no choice but to take to the street and hope that when the sun rises she will see another day. On the flip side of this you have Jack—his thirst for killing, a hunger he cannot control, and his immense joy at the pleasure of cleansing the streets of London. Jack is a man of breeding, educated, and determined to rid London of those unclean enough to earn a living from sex.
The author does an excellent job, delving into the mind a warped and twisted killer, and the audiobook is excellently narrated by Matt Jenkins.

[Victoria Zigler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dark and slightly disturbing, but worth the read if you like that kind of thing.