A review by lauren_elizabeth
From Hell by Eddie Campbell, Alan Moore, Pete Mullins

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Hallucinatory and harrowing, From Hell is painstakingly researched, and the Victorian geography of London vividly brought to life in black and white. While this tome encompasses many themes and preoccupations, from Masonic ritual to intrahistorical connections with such contemporaries of the period as John Merrick, William Yeats, and Oscar Wilde, perhaps what I appreciated the most was how the five victims of the Whitechapel murders are illustrated and brought to life as ordinary women, with pasts, dashed hopes, families and dreams, just doing the labour that was available to them to survive, neither grossly sexualised nor made an ugly spectacle of. Delves deeply into the Ripper story to reflect it back on us again. Mesmerising.