From Hell

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  • Legendary comics creator Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell have created a gripping, hallucinatory piece of crime fiction about Jack the Ripper. Detailing the events that led up to the Whitechapel murders and the cover-up that followed, From Hell has grow to be a modern masterpiece of crime noir and historical fiction.

The mad, shaggy genius of the comics world dips deeply into the well of history and pulls up a cup filled with blood in From Hell. Alan Moore did a few Ph.D.’s worth of research into the Whitechapel murders for this copiously annotated collection of the independently published series. The web of facts, opinion, hearsay, and imaginative invention draws the reader in from the first page. Eddie Campbell’s scratchy ink drawings evoke a dark and dirty Victorian London and help to humanize characters which were caricatured into obscurity for decades. Moore, having made up our minds that the evidence best fits the theory of a Masonic conspiracy to cover up a scandal involving Victoria’s grandson, goes to work telling the story with relish from the point of view of the sufferers, the chief inspector, and the killer–the Queen’s physician. His characterization is just as vibrant as Campbell’s; even the minor characters feel fully real. Looking more deeply than most, the writer finds in the “great work” of the Ripper a ritual magic working intended to give birth to the 20th century in all its horrid glory. Maps, characters, and settings are all as accurate as conceivable, and at the same time as the reader might not ultimately accept as true with Moore and Campbell’s thesis, From Hell is still a great work of literature. –Rob Lightner

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