Jack The Ripper - Mark Whitehead [57]
Jack’s Little Friends
Ripperana is a quarterly magazine, edited by Nick Warren, which covers many aspects of true crime but focuses particularly on Jack, including new titbits and theories surrounding the case. Subscriptions £6 (UK), $15 (US) per year, payable by cheques (UK: payable to NP Warren), or currency (US) to: 16 Copperfield Way, Pinner, HA5 5RY.
London Walks’ Jack the Ripper Haunts is the original and definitely the best Ripper walk. It starts every night from Tower Hill Underground Station at 7.30pm (and Saturday afternoons at 3.00pm). Your host for Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays and alternate Fridays is usually author Donald Rumbelow. £5 charge (£3.50 for senior citizens and students, under 15s free with an adult). Call 0207 624 3978 for more info.
For those with a really strong stomach, try the impressively accurate Jack the Ripper Experience at The London Dungeon, Tooley Street, London, SE1. It’s open 10am-5.30pm (5pm in winter) every day of the year. Entry fee: £10.95 (adults), £9.50 (students), £6.50 (kids under 14 and senior citizens).
Related Materials
The following titles concern cases of interest to Ripper enthusiasts and are worth reading in their own right:
Bondeson, Jan, The London Monster – A Sanguinary Tale, London: Free Association Books, 2000, Paperback, 256 pages, £8.99, ISBN 1853435260.
‘Springheeled Jack: To Victorian Bugaboo from Suburban Ghost’ by Mike Dash, in Moore, Steve (ed), Fortean Studies, Volume 3, UK: John Brown Publishing, 1996, Paperback, 384 pages, £19.99, ISBN 1870870824.
Goss, Mike, The Halifax Slasher:An Urban Terror in the North of England, UK: Fortean Times Occasional Paper No 3, 1987, Paperback, 56 pages, £2.50, ISSN 02605856.
James, PD and Critchley, TA, The Maul and the Pear Tree:The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811, London: Faber and Faber, 2000, Paperback, 274 pages, £8.99, ISBN: 0571202829.
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