Tales of Jack the Ripper (33 page)

Have called my keen attentions all their own

For too brief moments… thus my hungering

Which ever sharper grows until its sting

Wins through at last to know thee to the bone,

Thy crimson whispers, & thy very marrow.

Thank you!

The following people helped to make the book you hold in your hands possible. I owe them a colossal debt of thanks.

Jill Frost Henderson

James and Virginia Lockhart

Jennifer Lockhart

Marty Halpern

Claudia Noble

Arnaud de Vallois

Mike Roth

Rand Burgess

Andrew S. Fuller

Michael Lee

Jubela, Jubelo, & Jubelum

The Bizarro Family

Ripperologists everywhere

The Authors

...and most of all, you, the reader.

Copyright Acknowledgments

“Termination Dust” © 2013 Laird Barron. Original to this anthology.

“Jack’s Little Friend” © 1975 Ramsey Campbell. Originally published in
Jack the Knife
. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“A Host of Shadows” © 2000 Alan M. Clark and Gary A. Braunbeck. Originally published in
Midnight Hour #1
. Reprinted by permission of the authors.

“The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick-Maker” © 2013 Ennis Drake. Original to this anthology.

“The Truffle Pig” © 2013 T.E. Grau. Original to this anthology.

“Ripping” © 2013 Walter Greatshell. Original to this anthology.

“Ripperology” © 2013 Orrin Grey. Original to this anthology.

“Hell Broke Loose” © 2013 Ed Kurtz. Original to this anthology.

“God of the Razor” © 1987 Joe R. Lansdale. Originally published in
Grue Magazine #5
. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Abandon All Flesh” © 2013 Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Original to this anthology.

“Where Have You Been All My Life?” © 2013 Edward Morris. Original to this anthology.

“Juliette’s New Toy” © 2013 Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. Original to this anthology.

“Villains, by Necessity” © 2013 Pete Rawlik. Original to this anthology.

“When the Means Just Defy the End” © 2013 Stanley C. Sargent. Original to this anthology.

“Whitechapel Autumn, 1888” © 2006 Ann K. Schwader. Originally published in
Jabberwocky #1
. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Silver Kisses (for Mary Jane Kelly, Whitechapel 1888)” © 1999 Ann K. Schwader. Originally published in
Penny Dreadful #11
. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Once November” © 2013 E. Catherine Tobler. Original to this anthology.

“Something About Dr. Tumblety” © 2013 Patrick Tumblety. Original to this anthology.

“A Pretty for Polly” © 2013 Mercedes M. Yardley. Original to this anthology.

ROSS E. LOCKHART is an author, anthologist, and freelance editor, as well as the Publisher/Editor in Chief of Word Horde, a genre publishing company launched in 2013. A lifelong fan of supernatural, fantastic, speculative, and weird fiction, Lockhart holds degrees in English from Sonoma State University (BA) and SFSU (MA). He is a veteran of small-press publishing, having edited scores of well-regarded novels of horror, fantasy, and science fiction.

In 2011, Lockhart edited the acclaimed Lovecraftian anthology
The Book of Cthulhu
. In 2012, a follow-up,
The Book of Cthulhu II,
was published by Night Shade Books, and his rock-and-roll novel,
Chick Bassist
, was published by Lazy Fascist Press. Lockhart lives in an old church in Petaluma, California, with his wife Jennifer, hundreds of books, and Elinor Phantom, a Shih Tzu moonlighting as his editorial assistant.

Find Ross online at http://www.haresrocklots.com.