From Hell READ the August 1995 first draft
August 1995 first draft by Terry Hayes (based on the comic series by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell)
Synopsis: It is 1888 in London, and the
unfortunate poor lead horrifying lives in the city's deadliest slum,
Whitechapel. Harassed by gangs and forced to walk the streets for a
living, Mary Kelly and her small group of companions trudge on through
this daily misery, their only consolation being that things can't get
any worse. Yet things somehow do when their friend Ann is kidnapped and
they are drawn into a conspiracy with links higher up than they could
possibly imagine. The kidnapping is soon followed by the gruesome murder
of another woman, Polly, and it becomes apparent that they are being
hunted down, one by one. Sinister even by Whitechapel standards, the
murder grabs the attention of Inspector Fred Abberline, a brilliant yet
troubled man whose police work is often aided by his psychic abilities.
Abberline becomes deeply involved with the case, which takes on personal
meaning to him when he and Mary begin to fall in love. But as he gets
closer to the truth Whitechapel becomes more and ...
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