From Hell-来自地狱

作者：Alan Moore(英国阿兰·摩尔)

书名：From Hell《来自地狱》

中文简介：《来自地狱》是作家艾伦·摩尔和艺术家埃迪·坎贝尔的一部平面小说，最初以连载形式出版于1989年至1998年。故事发生在维多利亚时代晚期的白教堂谋杀案中，小说推测了开膛手杰克的身份和动机。这部小说描述了几件与谋杀有关的真实事件，尽管部分都是虚构的，特别是凶手的身份以及谋杀的确切性质和情况。

英文简介：Bolstered by meticulous research that encompasses a wide spectrum of Ripper studies and myths and coupled with his ability to evoke sympathies in such monstrous characters, Moore has created perhaps the finest examination of the Ripper legacy, observing far beyond society's obsessive need to expose Evil's visage. Ultimately, as Moore observes, Jack's identity and his actions are inconsequential to the manner in which society embraced the Fear: "It's about us. It's about our minds and how they dance. Jack mirrors our hysterias. Faceless, he is the receptacle for each new social panic." 

Eddie Campbell's stunning black and white artwork, replete with a scratchy, dirty sheen, is perfectly matched to the often-unshakeable intensity of Moore's writing. Between them, each murder is rendered in horrifying detail, providing the book's most unnerving scenes, made more so in uncomfortable, yet lyrical moments as when the villain embraces an eviscerated corpse, craving understanding; pleading that they "are wed in legend, inextricable within eternity". 

Though technically a comic, the term hardly begins to describe From Hell's inimitable grandeur and finesse, as it takes the medium to fresh heights of ingenuity and craftsmanship. Moore and Campbell's autopsy on the emaciated corpse of the Ripper myth has divulged a deeply disturbing yet undeniably captivating masterpiece. - Danny Graydon