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Night of the Ripper
First edition
Author	Robert Bloch
Language	English
Genre	Crime
Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	1984
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	227 (first edition hardcover)
ISBN	978-0-385-19422-8
Preceded by	Psycho II
Followed by	Lori

Night of the Ripper is a 1984 novel written by American writer Robert Bloch.^[1]

Plot

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The story is set during the reign of Queen Victoria and follows the investigation of Inspector Abberline in attempting to apprehend Jack the Ripper and includes some characters based on real-life Victorians such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the storyline.

References

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^ "Night of the Ripper by Robert Bloch". goodreads.com. Retrieved 2014-09-08.

v t e Robert Bloch
Novels	Psycho American Gothic Psycho II Night of the Ripper Psycho House
Short story collections	The Opener of the Way Pleasant Dreams: Nightmares The Early Fears Flowers from the Moon and Other Lunacies
Short stories	"That Hell-Bound Train" "The Shambler from the Stars" "A Toy for Juliette"
Screenplays	The Couch The Cabinet of Caligari Strait-Jacket The Night Walker The Skull The Psychopath Torture Garden The Deadly Bees The House That Dripped Blood Asylum
Teleplays	"What Are Little Girls Made Of?" "Wolf in the Fold" "Catspaw" "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" The Cat Creature The Dead Don't Die The Return of Captain Nemo
Adaptations	Psycho (1960) Psycho (1998) Bates Motel (2013–2017)
Anthologies edited	Robert Bloch's Psychos
Related articles	De Vermis Mysteriis "Out of the Aeons" "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World" Star vampire

Jack the Ripper in fiction

Seminal works

Letters

Film

Waxworks (1924)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Pandora's Box (1929)
The Lodger (1932)
The Lodger (1944)
Room to Let (1950)
Man in the Attic (1953)
Jack the Ripper (1959)
Lulu (1962)
A Study in Terror (1965)
Hands of the Ripper (1971)
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
The Ruling Class (1972)
What the Swedish Butler Saw (1975)
Jack the Ripper (1976)
Murder by Decree (1979)
Time After Time (1979)
Jack's Back (1988)
Edge of Sanity (1989)
Deadly Advice (1994)
Ripper (2001)
From Hell (2001)
Bad Karma (2002)
Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street (2002)
Ripper 2: Letter from Within (2004)
The Lodger (2009)
Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)

Parody

Bizarre, Bizarre (1937)
The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town (1976)
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

Music

"Jack the Ripper" (1963)
"The Ripper" (1976)
"Killer on the Loose" (1980)
The Somatic Defilement (2007)
Jack the Ripper vs. Hannibal Lecter (2014)

Stage

Earth Spirit (1895 play)
Pandora's Box (1904 play)
Lulu (1937 opera)
The Lodger (1960 opera)
The Ruling Class (1968 play)

Comics

Blood of the Innocent (1985)
Gotham by Gaslight (1989)
From Hell (1989–98)
Wonder Woman: Amazonia (1997)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century (2009)

Literature

Sherlock Holmes	The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (1978) The Whitechapel Horrors (1992) Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (2005) Dust and Shadow (2009) The Ripper Legacy (2016)
Short stories	"A Toy for Juliette" (1967) "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World" (1967)
Other	A Feast Unknown (1969) Time After Time (1979) Night of the Ripper (1984) Phantom Blood (1987) Naomi's Room (1991) Anno Dracula (1992) A Night in the Lonesome October (1993) Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend (1996) Matrix (1998) Lost (2001) Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed (2002) Blood and Fog (2003) The Witches of Chiswick (2003) Broken (2006) Darkside (2007) Lifeblood (2007) Dracula the Un-dead (2009) I, Ripper (2015) The Cutthroat (2017)

Television

Series	Jack the Ripper (1973) Jack the Ripper (1988) Sanctuary (2007–11) Whitechapel (2009–13) Ripper Street (2012–17) Time After Time (2017) Case File nº221: Kabukicho (2019–20) Sherlock in Russia (2020) Beforeigners (2019–present)
Episodes	"Wolf in the Fold" (1967) "Comes the Inquisitor" (1995) "Ripper" (1999) "Sanctuary for All" (2008) "The Great British Fake Off" (2020)
Other	Bridge Across Time (1985 TV film)

Video games

Jack the Ripper (1987)
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes (1992)
Ripper (1996)
Duke Nukem: Zero Hour (1999)
Shadow Man (1999)
MediEvil 2 (2000)
Jack the Ripper (2004)
Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper (2009)
The Ripper (canceled)
The Order: 1886 (2015)
Assassin's Creed Syndicate: Jack the Ripper (2015)
Dance of Death: Du Lac & Fey (2019)

Other

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