Modern Fiction

Ackroyd, Peter. Hawksmoor . San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1987 (reprint).

• Brilliantly creepy.

Frost, Mark. The List of 7. New York: Avon, 1993.

• Pretty terrible, but potentially suggestive

Moore, Alan. From Hell. Top Shelf, 2004.

• Very useful, although based on Knight’s confused account. Moore also weaves in the Hawksmoor stuff. The epilogue about the history of Ripperology is good.

———. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. DC Comics, 2002.

• A little pulp-ish, but excellent. Note that there is a second volume, and a big slipcased hardcover.

Priest, Christopher. The Prestige.

• Very clever, largely about stage magicians a la JohnNevilMaskelyne's EgyptianHall.

Sinclair, Ian. Lud Heat. London: Granta, 2001.

• Stunning prose poetry, from which Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor was expounded. See also his White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings (London: Granta, 2001), which I haven't seen yet but hear is good.

-- ChrisLehrich^? - 22 Dec 2004