The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World

In Harlan Ellison's 1969 anthology, Dangerous Visions, he presents a collection of several different views of science fiction and fantasy, through 34 authors (himself included).

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Harlan Ellison - 1969 - Anthology - Dangerous Visions

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This was his story.

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It is written as a follow-up to Robert Bloch's story (immediately before it in the book), "A Toy For Juliette". In it, the legendary Jack the Ripper has been somehow yanked into a futuristic metropolis of sterility, where anyone is free to do what they want, however arcane or (as he wrote it in 1969, and, for the most part, as I write this, in 2005) illegal. He is brought before Juliette, a girl who is appropriately named after the Marquis de Sade's Juliette.

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Robert Bloch - A Toy For Juliette - Jack the Ripper - 1969 - 2005 - Marquis de Sade - Juliette

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Ellison continues the story into the existentialist realm, of Jack the Ripper being driven (more) insane by the tortures of the sadistic (named after M. de Sade) future-people(? Not really human).

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