Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
by Robert Bloch
Robert Bloch’s novel Psycho introduced the world to Norman Bates. But Bates was not the only serial slayer to inhabit the shadows cast by Bloch’s pen. Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper is a collection of tales that bring to life the criminal legend.
From the murky hell of London’s East End to the far reaches of space, Bloch charts the path carved by the Ripper’s blade. Saucy Jack stalks the streets of 1940s Chicago in the title tale, while “A Toy for Juliette” (from Harlan Ellison’s Dangerous Visions anthology) sends the Ripper through the gates of time to a cold and distant future. The decks of the Starship Enterprise become Red Jack’s hunting ground in Bloch’s original Star Trek script, “Wolf in the Fold.” Plus, Bloch reveals the history of the Ripper’s crimes and explores the theories concerning the Whitechapel murderer’s true identity in a pair of essays and an original novel (The Night of the Ripper), all included herein.
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Robert Bloch’s novel Psycho introduced the world to Norman Bates. But Bates was not the only serial slayer to inhabit the shadows cast by Bloch’s pen. Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper is a collection of tales that bring to life the criminal legend. From the murky hell of London’s East End to the far reaches of space, Bloch charts the path carved by the Ripper’s blade. Saucy Jack stalks the streets of 1940s Chicago in the title tale, while “A Toy for Juliette” (from Harlan Ellison’s Dangerous Visions anthology) sends the Ripper through the gates of time to a cold and distant future. The decks of the Starship Enterprise become Red Jack’s hunting ground in Bloch’s original Star Trek script, “Wolf in the Fold.” Plus, Bloch reveals the history of the Ripper’s crimes and explores the theories concerning the Whitechapel murderer’s true identity in a pair of essays and an original novel (The Night of the Ripper), all included herein.