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NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES

The most famous Jack the Ripper Novel is '' The Lodger '' ( 1913 ) by Marie Belloc Lowndes , which in 1927 was the subject of an Alfred Hitchcock -directed film. Other novels featuring the Ripper include '' Ritual In The Dark '' ( 1960 ) by Colin Henry Wilson , '' Anno Dracula '' (1992) by Kim Newman , '' White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings '' (1987) by Iain Sinclair , ''Savage'' ( 1993 ) by Richard Laymon , '' The Gods Of Riverworld '' ( 1983 ) by Philip José Farmer and '' A Night In The Lonesome October '' (1993) by Roger Zelazny .

Robert Bloch 's Short Story " Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper " ( 1943 ) cast the Ripper as a sorcerer who must occasionally make a series of Human Sacrifice s to extend his Immortality . The science-fiction anthology '' Dangerous Visions '' ( 1967 ) featured an unrelated Ripper story by Bloch, "A Toy for Juliette," and a sequel by Harlan Ellison , "Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World," written with Bloch's permission.

The Chris Elliot novel ''The Shroud of the Thwacker'' spoofs the Jack the Ripper case. This version takes in 1882 New York City (six years prior to The Ripper murders). The serial killer, instead of ripping his victims, thwacks them over the head with a sack of apples.

In Jô Soares ' slasher comedy novel '' A Samba For Sherlock '', the Ripper attacks in Rio De Janeiro , and his crimes are investigated by Sherlock Holmes at the request of Brazil's last monarch, Emperor Dom Pedro II .

The author Gregory Maguire , most known for his book '' Wicked '' chronicling the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West, continued his tradition of creating revisionist retellings of popular stories and legends when he took on the Jack the Ripper myth in his 2001 novel '' Lost ''.


FILMS

The following Films feature the Ripper as a subject:
  • In the film '' Dr. Strangelove '', the villain is the deranged USAF general ''Jack D. Ripper'', who orders his wing of B-52s to carry out an unprovoked and unordered (by Presidential authority) thermonuclear attack in the Soviet Union .


  • In addition to Alfred Hitchcock's '''' with Jack Palance playing the killer; and '' The Lodger (1944 Film) '' with Laird Cregar as the "ripper".

  • '' attempting to find the murderer.

  • ' theory that the Ripper was an avenging doctor.

  • The Hammer Films production '' Hands Of The Ripper '' ( 1971 ) {Link without Title} , in which the Ripper's daughter grows up to become a murderer after she sees her father kill her mother;

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  • '' builds a time machine used by Jack the Ripper to continue his killing spree in a future San Francisco .

  • '' Shanghai Knights ''. Although not explicitly identified, while in Whitechapel Chon Lin runs into a man with a cloak, top hat, carroty mustache, and sword-cane. He attempts to attack her, but instead ends up beaten severely and dunked in the river. Although his appearance in 1885 could be considered anachronistic, it's possible that it was merely three more years before he would try again.

  • In '' This Is Spinal Tap '', the band discusses the possibility of composing a rock opera about Jack the Ripper's life, called ''Saucy Jack''.



THEATRE

The Ripper features briefly at the end of Frank Wedekind 's Play '' Die Büchse Der Pandora '' (1904), in which he murders Lulu, the central character. This play was later turned into the film '' Pandora's Box '' (1928, directed by G. W. Pabst ) and the Opera '' Lulu '' (by Alban Berg ), both of which also end with this murder.


COMICS

'' From Hell '' is a Graphic Novel about the Ripper case by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell . In 2001 , the Hughes Brothers made the book into a film starring Johnny Depp and Heather Graham .

DC Comics ' '' Gotham By Gaslight '' features a Victorian-era version of the Superhero Batman hunting the killer, who has come to Gotham City . This was the first of the Alternate Universe " Elseworlds " series.

Another Elseworld story, '''' has a different fictional version of Jack the Ripper, who eventually became king of England.

A third Elseworld story, '''' featured Jack the Ripper as an Orangutan who was one of Moreau's early experiments.

In the mainstream DCU, it has been suggested that Vandal Savage may have been involved in the Ripper Murders.

The '''' graphic novel ''Serial'' is about a Jack the Ripper copy-cat killer in present-day Las Vegas during a "Ripper-Mania" Convention, leading to hundreds of Ripper case enthusiasts as suspects in the murders.

In the Manga series Shaman King , one of the members of team Hanagumi uses the spirit of Jack the Ripper to animate a doll that carries various knives and other sharp weapons.


TELEVISION

  • The 1988 TV film ''Jack the Ripper'' re-told the story of the murders with Michael Caine as Inspector Abberline . {Link without Title}

  • The 1997 TV movie ''The Ripper'' featured Patrick Bergin as (fictional) Inspector Jim Hansen and Samuel West as Prince Albert Victor, Duke Of Clarence . {Link without Title}

  • In the '' Star Trek '' episode " Wolf In The Fold ", written by Robert Bloch, a highly aggressive alien entity named ''Redjac'' is responsible for the Ripper murders and others like them on other planets.

  • The '' Babylon 5 '' episode " Comes The Inquisitor " features a character named Sebastian who is meant to be Jack the Ripper, taken by Vorlon s in the year 1888 and rehabilitated to become an inquisitor so that he can test (through torture) the motives of people who are called to lead an important cause.

  • An episode of '' The Outer Limits '' titled "Ripper" starred Cary Elwes as Doctor Jack York, who discovered an alien entity possessing people and killing them; he was frequently nearby during the deaths and became a suspect in the case.

  • In an episode of '' Goodnight Sweetheart '', Jack the Ripper is transported to the 1990s through a time portal similar to the one the main character Gary Sparrow uses to travel to the 1940s.

  • In the first episode of '''' titled "The Ripper", reporter Carl Kolchak pursues a killer whose victims match the patterns of the original Ripper murders. The killer's superhuman strength and invulnerability to weapons lead Kolchak to surmise that the killer is indeed the original Jack the Ripper.

  • In an episode of '' Celebrity Deathmatch '', commentators Johnny Gomez and Nick Diamond end up traveling in time and arrive in 1888 London. They run into Jack, who gives them his card (His name appears as "Jack T. Ripper" on the card, which Nick misreads as Jack Tripper ). Some time later, Sherlock Holmes appears on the scene and a match begins.



VIDEO GAMES


Jack appears in the PlayStation video-game '' Medievil II '' as a tall green monster with giant claws protruding from his hands, long sharp teeth and a top hat. He first appears in the level "Whitechapel", where policemen roam the streets to track him down. The timing of this game is off by however, as it supposedly takes place in 1886. Towards the end of the "Whitechapel" level, the club mistress says that the Ripper has been "working through all my girls" even though this is two years too early for him to even be known publicly as the Ripper.

Jack the Ripper is featured prominently in the plot of the Nintendo 64 / PlayStation game '' Shadowman ''.

In '' Age Of Empires III '' an unlockable home city upgrade for the British is Jack the Ripper.

Jack is one of the historically-based characters in the '' World Heroes '' series.

Jack is also in a PC game called ''Jack the Ripper'' that is published by The Adventure Company.


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