EDITORIAL

CAPUCINE DESLOUIS THE ART OF THE WEIRD You’ll notice that our June issue has a loose theme running through it: we have focused on the often surprising relationships between the world of strange phenomena and that of the visual arts, a decision prompted in part by two major exhibitions running currently in London that each provides a food for fortean thought. The identity of ‘Jack the Ripper’, and the killer’s subsequent quasi-folkloric afterlife, has exercised many a mind since the conclusion of the unsolved Whitechapel murders, with contributions in these very pages from the likes of Therese Taylor, Jan Bondeson, Scott Wood and the late Ripperologist and one-time FT stalwart Nick Warren. In our cover story (p28), Billy Rough tackles what must be one of the strangest Ripper theories, as…

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