Otto Penzler. (2016). The Big Book of Jack the Ripper. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Otto Penzler. 2016. The Big Book of Jack the Ripper. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Otto Penzler, The Big Book of Jack the Ripper. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016.

Otto Penzler. The Big Book of Jack the Ripper. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016.

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   • bioText: OTTO PENZLER is the editor of fourteen Vintage Crime/Black Lizard anthologies, including The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories, The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries, and, most recently, The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories. He lives in New York City, where he is the proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop.
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Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler's latest anthology takes its inspiration from the historical enigma whose name has become synonymous with fear: Jack the Ripper.
 
Of the real-life serial killers whose gruesome acts have been splashed across headlines, none has reached the mythical status of Jack the Ripper. In the Ripper's wake, terror swept through the streets of London’s East End in the fall of 1888. As quickly as his nightmarish reign came, Saucy Jack vanished without a trace—leaving future generations to speculate upon his identity and whereabouts. He was diabolical in a way never seen before—a killer who taunted the police, came up with his own legendary monikers, and, ultimately, got away with his heinous crimes.
More than a century later, the man “from hell” continues to live on in the imaginations of readers everywhere—and in some of the most spec­tacularly unnerving stories, both fiction and nonfiction, ever written. The Big Book of Jack the Ripper immerses you in the utterly chilling world of Red Jack’s London, where his unprecedented evil still lurks.
 
Including:
· Legendary stories by Marie Belloc Lowndes, Robert Bloch, and Ellery Queen
· Captivating essays from George Bernard Shaw, Stephen Hunter, and Peter Underwood
· Riveting new stories by contemporary masters Jeffrey Deaver, Loren D. Estleman, Lyndsay Faye, and many more
· Astonishing theories from the world’s foremost Ripperologists
 
From the Ripper Vault:
· Demonic letters from Jack himself
· Gruesome postmortem exams documenting all the bits and pieces of the cases
· Harrowing witness statements taken on those hellish nights
· Breaking newspaper accounts of the East End hysteria

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   • content: "A monumental collection. . . . [Penzler] leaves no stone unturned."
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     August 22, 2016
     Penzler’s ambitious sixth Big Book (after 2015’s The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories) appropriately deviates from the template of earlier volumes, given its focus on a real-life criminal. The opening section, “The True Story,” gathers primary sources, like witness statements and autopsy reports, contemporary newspaper accounts of the murders, and George Bernard Shaw’s legendary letter to the editor of the Star newspaper decrying the horrific living conditions in Whitechapel. The bulk of the book provides a comprehensive selection of Ripper-inspired fiction, including such well-known works as Marie Belloc Lowndes’s “The Lodger” (presented in both its original short story form and later novel version) and Robert Bloch’s “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper.” But as with previous Big Books, Penzler’s dogged research has enabled him to include undeservedly obscure stories as well, such as R. Chetwynd-Hayes’s creepy “The Gatecrasher” and Isak Dinesen’s “The Uncertain Heiress.” High-quality tales original to this volume, from such 21st-century masters as Daniel Stashower, Lyndsay Faye, and Jeffery Deaver, are another bonus. Agent: Nat Sobel, Sobel Weber.

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     Truth in labeling alert: Penzler's latest plus-sized anthology differs sharply from volumes like Maxim Jakubowski's The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper because it doesn't focus mainly on the world's most famous real-life serial killer but rather on his fictional epigones.Penzler does begin with 136 pages of documentation from the 1888 murder spree, reviews of the slim but harrowing evidence, and historical speculations about the Ripper's identity. But his heart is really in showcasing the fictional afterlives of Saucy Jack, and here he leaves no stone unturned. Among the 52 selections are classic tales by Cleveland Moffett, Thomas Burke, Isak Dinesen, Anthony Boucher, and Edward D. Hoch and brand-new stories by Anne Perry (a Victorian woman wonders if her husband might be Jack), Jeffery Deaver (a pastiche that blurs the line between fiction and history), Loren D. Estleman (a Ripper type terrorizes postwar Detroit), Daniel Stashower (an enterprising group's staging of "the Ripper experience" runs into predictable complications), Stephen Hunter (Jack arrives in hell), and, most haunting of all, Lyndsay Faye (a posthumous memoir by one of the Ripper's victims). As in his earlier anthologies for Vintage (The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries, 2014, etc.), Penzler's keynote virtue is exhaustiveness. Readers will find three novel-length tales by Boris Akunin (The Decorator, pitting Erast Petrovich Fandorin against a Moscow Ripper), Ellery Queen (A Study in Terror, a surprisingly successful tale pairing the Ripper with Sherlock Holmes), and Marie Belloc Lowndes (the memorably creepy The Lodger). Completists will note with pleasure that Penzler includes not only The Lodger, but the Lowndes short story on which it is based and not only Robert Bloch's tour de force "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper," but "A Toy for Juliette," the futuristic sequel Bloch provided at Harlan Ellison's request, and "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World," Ellison's sequel to Bloch's sequel. The Ripper has been such a persistent inspiration in the mystery and horror genres that no anthology can truly be exhaustive. But if you finish this monumental collection and find yourself with an appetite for more, consider seeking professional help. COPYRIGHT(1) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     August 15, 2016
     Truth in labeling alert: Penzlers latest plus-sized anthology differs sharply from volumes like Maxim Jakubowskis The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper because it doesnt focus mainly on the worlds most famous real-life serial killer but rather on his fictional epigones.Penzler does begin with 136 pages of documentation from the 1888 murder spree, reviews of the slim but harrowing evidence, and historical speculations about the Rippers identity. But his heart is really in showcasing the fictional afterlives of Saucy Jack, and here he leaves no stone unturned. Among the 52 selections are classic tales by Cleveland Moffett, Thomas Burke, Isak Dinesen, Anthony Boucher, and Edward D. Hoch and brand-new stories by Anne Perry (a Victorian woman wonders if her husband might be Jack), Jeffery Deaver (a pastiche that blurs the line between fiction and history), Loren D. Estleman (a Ripper type terrorizes postwar Detroit), Daniel Stashower (an enterprising groups staging of the Ripper experience runs into predictable complications), Stephen Hunter (Jack arrives in hell), and, most haunting of all, Lyndsay Faye (a posthumous memoir by one of the Rippers victims). As in his earlier anthologies for Vintage (The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries, 2014, etc.), Penzlers keynote virtue is exhaustiveness. Readers will find three novel-length tales by Boris Akunin (The Decorator, pitting Erast Petrovich Fandorin against a Moscow Ripper), Ellery Queen (A Study in Terror, a surprisingly successful tale pairing the Ripper with Sherlock Holmes), and Marie Belloc Lowndes (the memorably creepy The Lodger). Completists will note with pleasure that Penzler includes not only The Lodger, but the Lowndes short story on which it is based and not only Robert Blochs tour de force Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper, but A Toy for Juliette, the futuristic sequel Bloch provided at Harlan Ellisons request, and The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World, Ellisons sequel to Blochs sequel. The Ripper has been such a persistent inspiration in the mystery and horror genres that no anthology can truly be exhaustive. But if you finish this monumental collection and find yourself with an appetite for more, consider seeking professional help.

     COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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Of the real-life serial killers whose gruesome acts have been splashed across headlines, none has reached the mythical status of Jack the Ripper. In the Ripper's wake, terror swept through the streets of London’s East End in the fall of 1888. As quickly as his nightmarish reign came, Saucy Jack vanished without a trace—leaving future generations to speculate upon his identity and whereabouts. He was diabolical in a way never seen before—a killer who taunted the police, came up with his own legendary monikers, and, ultimately, got away with his heinous crimes.
More than a century later, the man “from hell” continues to live on in the imaginations of readers everywhere—and in some of the most spec­tacularly unnerving stories, both fiction and...

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