Legacy of the Ripper (32 page)

And I did venture forth, their bidding, their unholy quest to undertake.

Through mean, gas lit, fog shrouded streets, I wandered in the night, selected, struck, with flashing blade,

And oh, how the blood did run, pouring out upon the street, soaking through the cobbled cracks, spurting, like a fountain of pure red.

Viscera leaking from ripped red gut, my clothes assumed the smell of freshly butchered meat. The squalid, dark, street shadows beckoned, and under leaning darkened eaves, like a wraith I disappeared once more into the cheerless night,

The bloodlust of the voices again fulfilled, for a while...........

They will call again, and I once more will prowl the streets upon the night,

The blood will flow like a river once again.

Beware all those who would stand against the call,

I shall not be stopped or taken, no, not I.

Sleep fair city, while you can, while the voices within are still,

I am resting, but my time shall come again. I shall rise in a glorious bloodfest,

I shall taste again the fear as the blade slices sharply through yielding flesh,

when the voices raise the clarion call, and my time shall come again.

So I say again, good citizens, sleep, for there will be a next time...........

So you see, as I told you, I have important work to do, and I don't have much time to prepare. If you should see Doctor Ruth, please say hello from me.

Jack

Winner of The Preditors & Editors Best Thriller of 2008 Award.

and

Coming soon in motion picture from Thunderball Films LLC

A Study in Red - The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper by Brian L Porter tells the story of Robert Cavendish, a modern day psychiatrist who is bequeathed a strange set of papers which purport to be the journal of the long-dead infamous Whitechapel Murderer whose crimes gripped the hearts and minds and instilled terror on the streets of Victorian London. As he begins to read the journal, Robert becomes convinced of its authenticity and finds that the words of the Ripper have a strange and compelling effect on him. Unable to cast the pages aside he finds himself being drawn into the dark and sinister world of the killer until he is unable to distinguish what is fact and what is fantasy. In short, Robert Cavendish begins to feel as though he is being taken over in some way by the soul of the long-dead Ripper. What happens as he progresses through the journal will disturb and shock the reader as the close dividing line between sanity and madness is explored to the full.

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"A Study in Red' Is A BLOCKBUSTER Of A NOVEL" - Barbara Watkins, author, Amazon.com

"A Study in Red is seductive; it pulls you in, it draws you closer, it whispers in your ear. You cannot leave it, you cannot put it down - not until the very end - and by then it is far too late; it has you, mind, body and soul." - Graeme S. Houston, Mythica Publishing.

Brian L Porter is a member of The Whitechapel Society 1888, which is a real organisation and is featured within the pages of 'Legacy of the Ripper'. He also belongs to The American Authors Association and The Military Writers Society of America. In addition to winning The Preditors & Editors Best Thriller Award of 2008 for A Study in Red - The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper, he also won the Best Poet of 2008 Award in the same awards poll under his pseudonym of Juan Pablo Jalisco. In addition to his writing the author is also the Mystery/Thriller Consultant Editor for a Scottish Publishing House, and Science Fiction Conceptual Consultant to a U.S. Publisher. He lives with his wife, two step-daughters and eight rescued dogs.