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18 unusual facts about Jack the Ripper


A New Era of Corruption

With The Somatic Defilement being a narrative of Jack the Ripper and This Is Exile containing political and anti-religious themes, A New Era of Corruption is the first Whitechapel release that is not a concept album.

A Night in the Lonesome October

A Night in the Lonesome October is narrated in the present tense from the point-of-view of Snuff, a dog who is Jack the Ripper's companion.

Antimacassar

Annie Chapman, the second canonical victim of Jack the Ripper, was said to have made antimacassars for a living shortly before she was murdered.

Barbara Creed

Her 2005 book Phallic Panic: Film, Horror & the Primal Uncanny looks at the figures of Frankenstein, Dracula and Jack the Ripper and argues that these very male monsters are, using Freud's terms, aligned with the primal uncanny.

Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh

In October 2013 she left her husband and is now seeing County Laois native Albert Reid, they are currently writing a new album based on the serial killer Jack the Ripper the album will be released in spring 2014 titled Saucy Jack.

Casebook: Jack the Ripper

Casebook: Jack the Ripper is a website devoted to the historical mystery of the Jack the Ripper murders of Whitechapel and the surrounding areas of London in 1888 and possibly other years.

Eduardo Cuitiño

Eduardo Cuitiño Bosio (Montevideo, January 28, 1974) is a Uruguayan writer/author and mathematician known for his investigations and essays on two historic figures: Carlos Gardel and Jack the Ripper.

Gabriel Pombo

Gabriel Antonio Pombo (Montevideo, 11 October 1961) is a Uruguayan writer and lawyer, who is known for his books, essays and interviews relating to serial murderers, and particularly about the famous case of Jack the Ripper, the mysterious and never discovered murderer of London.

HorrorClix

The "Buy it by the Brick" exclusives included a Jack the Ripper Limited Edition figure, a coupon for the AVP: Aliens collector's set and a coupon for the Great Cthulhu colossal figure.

Hugh O. Pentecost

Feigenbaum gained posthumous infamy as an unlikely suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders.

Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend

Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend is a 1996 book by Richard Wallace in which Wallace proposed a theory that British author Lewis Carroll, whose real name was Charles L. Dodgson (1832–1898), and his colleague Thomas Vere Bayne (1829–1908) were responsible for the Jack the Ripper murders.

Similarly, anagram aficionados Francis Heaney and Guy Jacobson pointed out that similarly incriminating anagrams could be derived from Wallace's own book.

London Rippers

The choice of the name and mascot proved controversial with some, as it was felt to represent Jack the Ripper.

Natalie Lindstrom

On the flight home, he and Mfume discover that Evan Markham is, in fact, the Faceless Man while Sondra Avebury is the rogue soul enabling Markham to kill his victims with a minimum of struggle; together, the two of them slowly developed the "Violet Killer" modus operandi by appropriating details of famous serial killers (Jack the Ripper's ritual disembowlment, the Zodiac Killer's letters to the media; Jeffrey Dahmer's collection of body parts).

Psych: The Musical

Six years before the events of the episode, Z's play about Jack the Ripper is abruptly cancelled and he is sent to a mental institution.

The Two Ronnies

Set in Victorian times, it is a Jack the Ripper parody in which a mysterious figure goes around blowing raspberries at members of the upper classes.

Vorlon

Aside from Alexander, only one other human has been known to have access to Vorlon space: Sebastian, formerly known as Jack the Ripper, whom the Vorlons took from 19th century Earth in order to employ as an "Inquisitor".

Zaragon

The long, three-part "Nice Man Jack" – a song about Jack the Ripper – was the centrepiece of the album, whilst the title track was science fiction orientated.


Barry Burman

In the 1980s, he created a number of images inspired by both real-life and fictional serial-killers, including Jack the Ripper, Ed Gein and Hannibal Lecter.

CRL Group

Dracula and Frankenstein were awarded "15" certificates by the British Board of Film Censors for their graphics depicting bloody scenes, while Jack the Ripper and Wolfman gained "18" certificates.

Edward Badham

Edward Badham (born in 1860 in Barnes, Surrey - Date of death unknown) was a police sergeant involved in the investigation of the Jack the Ripper murders, particularly those of Annie Chapman and Mary Jane Kelly.

Glyn Maxwell

Other plays include Wolfpit, about two green children said to have appeared in Suffolk in the 12th century (Edinburgh 1996; New York 2006), The Forever Waltz, a reworking of the Orpheus-Eurydice story (New York 2005; Edinburgh 2005), and The Only Girl in the World, a play about Mary Kelly, the last victim of Jack the Ripper (London 2001).

GNR Stirling 4-2-2

In the anime film Detective Conan: The Phantom of the Baker Street, in which the protagonists are in a virtual reality game, the protagonists confront Jack the Ripper on the top of a runaway passenger train, which is pulled by a GNR Stirling Single Engine.

Jean Overton Fuller

Fuller also wrote several other biographies, notably of Shelley, Swinburne, Sir Francis Bacon, Victor Neuburg and a book detailing her theory of Jack the Ripper's true identity being Walter Richard Sickert, an English painter.

Man in the Attic

The movie, based on the 1913 novel The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes, fictionalizes the Jack the Ripper killings which was previously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927, by Maurice Elvey in 1932, by John Brahm in 1944, and subsequently by David Ondaatje in 2009.

Marc Culwick

Marc Culwick (sometimes credited as Mark Culwick) is a British-born actor whose most famous role was as Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward in the 1988 adaption of the Jack the Ripper legend starring Michael Caine.

Nicholas Hawksmoor

Both Sinclair and Ackroyd's ideas in turn were further developed by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell in their graphic novel, From Hell, which speculated that Jack the Ripper used Hawksmoor's buildings as part of ritual magic, with his victims as human sacrifice.

Phillip E. Hardy

He has also recently completed two screenplays about the life of the controversial communist activist Angela Davis, as well as one about serial killer Jack The Ripper.

Ramble House

Other titles have concerned true crime (Bill Johnson’s Satan’s Den Exposed and a collection of contemporary newspaper accounts of the Jack the Ripper murders) and American historical figures (The Amorous Intrigues & Adventures of Aaron Burr and Diary and Journal of John Surratt, Conspirator).

Ronald Hines

In 1988 he played Home Secretary Henry Matthews in the TV film Jack the Ripper which starred Michael Caine.

Satan's Little Helpers

Satan's Little Helpers features the bands trademark theme of Satanism, sex and drugs the lyrical concept also focuses on the crimes of infamous murderers, such as Charles Manson, David Berkowitz, Richard Ramirez, Jack The Ripper, and Sean Sellers.

The Gene Machine

The plot shared many common elements with Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and From the Earth to the Moon, as well as many other literary and historical references to Victorian England, such as Sherlock Holmes, Treasure Island, The Time Machine, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jack the Ripper and many others.

The New Exhibit

The dispirited Martin asks one request; to spare the wax figures of Jack the Ripper, Albert W. Hicks, Henri Désiré Landru, William Burke and William Hare.

Under Blackpool Lights

Among these tracks, there are some cover songs such as "Take a Whiff on Me" (Lead Belly), "Outlaw Blues" (Bob Dylan), "Jack the Ripper" (Screaming Lord Sutch), "Jolene" (Dolly Parton), "Death Letter" (Son House), "Goin' Back to Memphis" (Soledad Brothers), and "De Ballit of de Boll Weevil" (Lead Belly).