From Hell (1991-1996), 572 pages, by Alan Moore, illustrated by Eddie Campbell

It is difficult to describe the effect this graphic novel has on the reader. The writing is harsh, surreal. The story is unsettling. The drawings capture the seamy dirty underbelly of London in the late 1800s.

Moore certainly does not intend this to be historically accurate or dispositive on the identify of Jack the Ripper. Instead, he immerses the reader into the mystery and horror of one of the world’s most notorious serial killers and the effect the killings have on the people immediately affected by them.