From Hell is Alan Moore’s take on Jack the Ripper. Jack is one of the great literary challenges because everyone has their own take on it. There are dozens (if not hundreds) of books, both fiction and non-fiction, about the murders and everyone has their own theory. As Moore details in the epilogue, he doesn’t care about who the murderer is, he just wants to use the murders as a backdrop for the story he wants to tell. So, he co-opted the theory from Stephen Knight about a royal conspiracy with a Freemason solution to the murders. So, what makes it so great?

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