The Curse Upon Mitre Square was the first piece of Ripper fiction (October 1888) and was originally published in the month-and-a-half period between the murders of Catherine Eddowes and Mary Kelly. It is in the public domain.
In 2002, I located a copy of the 1889 American text in The Library of Congress and republished it in ebook form, with a new design and Introduction. You can download that ebook here. (It’s free!). In 2006, I gave the ebook PDF to Ripperologist Magazine, and they published the full text, including my Intro. The Introduction has since been republished on the Casebook: Jack the Ripper website. And now I’ve put it into hypertext here on Hollywood Ripper as well. A hypertext version of the full text of The Curse Upon Mitre Square is also now available on Hollywood Ripper. The Table of Contents is below the 2002 ebook cover image. If you look beneath the Table of Contents, you will also find the 1889 American cover image along with the frontispiece.
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table of contents
Introduction
Book I—The Tragedies in the Church of Holy Trinity, Aldgate
Chapter 1. The Neophyte
Chapter 2. The Stolen Meeting
Chapter 3. Passion Exultant!
Chapter 4. The Cell
Chapter 5. The Tragedies at the High Altar
Chapter 6. Annihilation of the Monastery
Book II—Two Centuries After
Chapter 1. Rumours of the Apparition
Chapter 2. Merry-Making at the ‘Mitre’ Tavern
Chapter 3. The Ghost Avenged
Chapter 4. In Moorfields
Book III—The “Year of Grace,” 1888
Chapter 1. Whitechapel Road by Day
Chapter 2. Aldgate at Night
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The cover and frontispiece of the 1889 American edition of
The Curse Upon Mitre Square:
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