RIPPING YARNS

HE LOVES THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE, BUT CAN’T STAND OFFICE CULTURE

Many writers have imagined Jack the Ripper surviving into a new age, as in Psycho author Robert Bloch’s story “Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” and his 1967 Trek episode “Wolf In The Fold.” Alan Moore and eddie Campbell’s grisly graphic novel

From Hell includes a hallucinatory sequence where the Ripper, midway through his worst crime, finds himself in a modern office space. Unlike Warner’s Ripper, this Jack doesn’t revel in the future’s violence. Instead he’s appalled by the spiritless people of today. “How would I seem to you? Some antique fiend or penny dreadful horror, yet you frighten me!”