Naomi's Room
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Naomi's Room is a 1991 horror novel by Northern Irish author Jonathan Aycliffe.
Plot introduction
Pembroke College academic Charles Hillenbrand looks back on his life and his marriage to Laura, who gave up her job at the Fitzwilliam Museum on the birth of their daughter Naomi. On Christmas Eve 1970, Charles took his four-year-old daughter on a shopping trip from Cambridge to London by train. Naomi disappeared in Hamleys toy shop, and days later her mutilated body was discovered in Spitalfields. But Naomi does not rest in peace and Charles and Laura are haunted by her presence as other murders follow. The policeman leading the investigation is found with his throat cut in the crypt of a church near Brick Lane, then a press photographer who had shown Charles disturbing images in the photos he had taken is murdered, parts of his body found strewn along a Spitalfields alley...
Reception
- "A Chilling story which gives the lie to any notion that supernatural horror is remotely therapeutic. Aycliffe has a fine touch." The Independent[1]
- "A powerful psychological ghost story... the residual spirit of Jack the Ripper complicates matters and initially seems to intrude too much on the core story, but Aycliffe eventually resolves things quite neatly."[2]
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- The Lodger
- Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution
- "Dear Boss" letter
- "From Hell" letter
- "Saucy Jacky" postcard
- Waxworks (1924)
- The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
- Pandora's Box (1929)
- The Lodger (1932)
- The Lodger (1944)
- Room to Let (1950)
- Man in the Attic (1953)
- Jack the Ripper (1959)
- Lulu (1962)
- A Study in Terror (1965)
- Hands of the Ripper (1971)
- Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
- The Ruling Class (1972)
- What the Swedish Butler Saw (1975)
- Jack the Ripper (1976)
- Murder by Decree (1979)
- Time After Time (1979)
- Jack's Back (1988)
- Edge of Sanity (1989)
- Deadly Advice (1994)
- Ripper (2001)
- From Hell (2001)
- Bad Karma (2002)
- Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street (2002)
- Ripper 2: Letter from Within (2004)
- The Lodger (2009)
- Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)
- Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)
- Bizarre, Bizarre (1937)
- The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town (1976)
- Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
- "Jack the Ripper" (1963)
- "The Ripper" (1976)
- "Killer on the Loose" (1980)
- The Somatic Defilement (2007)
- Jack the Ripper vs. Hannibal Lecter (2014)
- Earth Spirit (1895 play)
- Pandora's Box (1904 play)
- Lulu (1937 opera)
- The Lodger (1960 opera)
- The Ruling Class (1968 play)
- Blood of the Innocent (1985)
- Gotham by Gaslight (1989)
- From Hell (1989–98)
- Wonder Woman: Amazonia (1997)
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century (2009)
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- Jack the Ripper (1987)
- The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes (1992)
- Ripper (1996)
- Duke Nukem: Zero Hour (1999)
- Shadow Man (1999)
- MediEvil 2 (2000)
- Jack the Ripper (2004)
- Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper (2009)
- The Ripper (canceled)
- The Order: 1886 (2015)
- Assassin's Creed Syndicate: Jack the Ripper (2015)
- Dance of Death: Du Lac & Fey (2019)
- Casebook: Jack the Ripper
- Blood!: The Life and Future Times of Jack the Ripper
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