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A Night in the Lonesome October

Roger Zelazny

Cthulhu Mythos, Jack the Ripper, Sherlock Holmes, a canine narrator--what more could October want?

Better than 'The Call of Cthulhu' for Beginning Readers, itself a tour de force that has to be seen to be believed.

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The Rain-Slick Street


This could be any London
but it's the one Jack terrorized
for years and years
emptied, en fin,
one entire quarter of the city
filled it, rather, with parts
not just those of women
ran out of them
everyone fell under the sharp sharp knife

it was only fair

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Clark the Ripper

At first it was a hobby,

A bloody fine way to spend a Friday night.

But then he got hooked:

He was cutting up all weekend,

then weekdays! Lunchtime, even on his break!

Right by the water cooler with Perry in the next room!

While on the phone with Lois!

(“Clark? What’s that sound?”)

Finally it had to end – the city was nearly deserted

and he was running out of freezer space.

Still, no one suspected

his secret identity.