Alan M. Clark

In Victorian London, the greatest city of the richest country in the world, the industrial revolution has created a world of decadence and prosperity, but also one of unimaginable suffering. Rats, parasites, streets blanketed in ankle-deep layers of filth; death, decay, and sorrow are ever-present. Catherine Eddowes is found murdered gruesomely in the street. When the police make their report, the only indicators of her life are the possessions carried on her person, likely everything she owned in the world. In Of Thimble and Threat, Alan M. Clark tells the heartbreaking story of Catherine Eddowes, the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper, explaining the origin and acquisition found with her at the time of her death, chronicling her life from childhood to adulthood, motherhood, her descent into alcoholism, and finally her death. Of Thimble and Threat is a story about the intense love between a mother and a child, a story of poverty and loss, fierce independence, and unconquerable will. It is the devastating portrayal of a self-perpetuated descent into Hell, a lucid view into the darkest parts of the human heart.

The Life of a Ripper Victim

Of Thimble and Threat

We all know about Jack the Ripper, the murderer who terrorized Whitechapel and confounded police in 1888, but how much do we really know about his victims? A BRUTAL CHILL IN AUGUST gives us an uncompromising and terrifying look at the nearly forgotten human story behind one of the most sensational crimes in history. This is horror that happened.

A Brutal Chill in August: A Novel of Polly Nichols, the First Victim of Jack the Ripper

Jeremy Robert Johnson

Siren Promised

Brian Lumley

Allen Koszowski

Signed, Limited Edition hardcover, each of 300 copies is hand numbered 1-300, and hand signed by the author.

The House of the Temple

The Prostitute's Price

Annie Chapman led a hard, lower class life in filthy 19th century London. Late in life, circumstances and and her choices led her to earn her crust by solicitation. After a bruising brawl with another woman over money and a man, she lost her lodgings and found herself sleeping rough. That dangerous turn of events delivered her into the hands of London's most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper. Contrasting her last week alive with the experiences of her earlier life, the author helps readers understand how she might have made the decisions that put her in the wrong place at the wrong time.

A Novel of Annie Chapman, the Second Victim of Jack the Ripper

Apologies to the Cat's Meat Man

We all know about Jack the Ripper, the serial murderer who terrorized Whitechapel and confounded police in 1888, but how much do we really know about his victims? Pursued by one demon into the clutches of another, the ordinary life of Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols is made extraordinary by horrible, inhuman circumstance. Jack the Ripper's first victim comes to life in this sensitive and intimate fictionalized portrait, from humble beginnings, to building a family with an abusive husband, her escape into poverty and the workhouse, alcoholism, and finally abandoned on the streets of London where the Whitechapel Murderer found her. With A Brutal Chill in August, Alan M. Clark gives readers an uncompromising and terrifying look at the nearly forgotten human story behind one of the most sensational crimes in history. This is horror that happened.

A Brutal Chill in August

A story that illuminates the dark corners of creative endeavor in which inspiration, no longer an elusive, spritely muse, turns deadly and begins stalking the artist. In this gritty, poignant novel, the life of an alcoholic artist and author, Aiden, collides headlong with that of a serial murderer. The artist fights a serious brain infection and struggles to hide his addictions, while holding his family together. The wall between reality and imagination comes crashing down when psychopathic Frederick invades Aiden's life, with a horrific lust for violence against young women. The artist's world careens out of control toward pure terror.

A Dismemoir

The Surgeon's Mate

Poverty and disease had stalked Elizabeth all her life, waiting to take her down. To survive, she listened to the two extremes within herself-the innocent child of hope, and the cynical, hardbitten opportunist. While one paints rosy pictures of what lies ahead, the other warns of pitfalls everywhere. Meanwhile, danger circles ever closer.

A Novel of Elizabeth Stride, the Third Victim of Jack the Ripper

Say Anything But Your Prayers

Brittle Bones and Old Rope

A historical fiction novel inspired by the life of Catherine Eddowes, the fourth victim of Jack the Ripper, a story of a mother's love, of poverty and loss, fierce independence, and unconquerable will. It is also a devastating portrayal of one woman's descent into Hell, a lucid view into the darkest parts of the human heart.

A Novel of Catherine Eddowes, the Fourth Victim of Jack the Ripper

Always in mourning clothes, secretive, devious, and deadly, the three Mortlow sisters might appear to be long lost members of the Addams Family or characters drawn by Edward Gorey. But their depiction is inspired by the Wardlaw sisters, actual criminals from history. The story of their lives and crimes is the very definition of Southern Gothic.

A Parliament of Crows

Angie Smith and Curtis Loew are having dreams they can't shake. At the heart of each is Angie's daughter, Kaya. Angie's dreams end in death, the spreading of hand-shaped bruises across her daughter's throat. Curtis' dreams end in something else, something closer to obsession than love. Angie is worlds away, trying to keep her drug-shattered mind from falling apart, traveling through an American underbelly filled with inhuman shapes, dark whispers and old friends with empty eyes. Curtis is Kaya's new neighbor. He's getting closer to her, and her mentally unstable grandmother, Colleen. He's had families before, but he'd always made mistakes. Mistakes that led to new names, new towns. But this one time, he swears, things will all work out. He's got so much love to give.

Elizabeth Massie

D.D. Murphry has a way with words-or is it that words have their way with him? Work the clues alongside this unlikely sleuth to reveal an underground cabal of letters, a conspiracy of meaning, right below the surface of the everyday world. Murphry is both hero and villain, an unforgettable personality who will have you cringing while you laugh and rooting for his every misguided plan. This is a clever tale told with a dexterity that allows for a gritty, noir feel, insight into the frailty of the human mind and the ability to see the absurdity in it all.

Alan M. Clark

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