Darkside (novel)

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Darkside
First edition cover
Author	Tom Becker
Cover artist	Studio Spooky
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Darkside
Genre	Children's
Publisher	Scholastic
Publication date	6 June 2000
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	256 pp
ISBN	978-0-439-94436-6
OCLC	71541663
Followed by	Lifeblood

Darkside is a children's novel by Tom Becker, about a boy called Jonathan who discovers a world hidden in London; a world run by Jack the Ripper's family. Only the worst of the worst live here, and all too quickly Johnathan gets mixed up in a world full of murders, thieves and, of course, a werewolf and a Vampire. It was Published in 2007 by Scholastic. It won the 2007 Waterstone's Children's Book Prize^[1] and was longlisted for the 2008 Manchester Book Award.^[2] Darkside also won the Calderdale Children's Book of the year Award.

Characters

Jonathon Starling – A quiet and adventurous 14 year old boy. The main character of the novel.

Alain Starling – Jonathon's ill and hospitalized Dad.

Carnegie – A mysterious werewolf and detective.

Marianne – A strange, florescent haired bounty hunter.

Grimshaw – The ruthless ringmaster of the Beastilia Exotica.

Vendetta – An evil vampire from Darkside.

Ricky Thomas – A normal student that was hunted and kidnapped.

Mrs Elwood – Jonathans helpful and slightly overprotective neighbour.

Humble and Skeet – The two freaky, weird sidekicks to Marianne.

PC Shaw and Carter Roberts – Two hopeless “policemen”.

Raquella – The cunning servant of Vendetta.

References

↑ .Waterstone's Children's Book Prize
↑ Manchester Book Award. Manchester Book Award. Retrieved on 2012-04-23.

Jack the Ripper media

Seminal works

The Lodger
Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution

Letters

Film

Waxworks (1924)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926)
Pandora's Box (1929)
The Lodger (1932)
The Lodger (1944)
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)
The Lodger (2009)
Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)

Parody

Bizarre, Bizarre (1937)
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

Music

Stage

Earth Spirit (1895 play)
Pandora's Box (1904 play)
Lulu (1937 opera)
The Lodger (1960 opera)

Comics

Literature

Sherlock Holmes	Dust and Shadow The Last Sherlock Holmes Story Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography

Short stories	"A Toy for Juliette" "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World"

Other	A Feast Unknown Anno Dracula Blood and Fog Matrix A Night in the Lonesome October Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed Time After Time The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century Phantom Blood Night of the Ripper Darkside Lifeblood Lost The Witches of Chiswick Broken Dracula the Un-dead

series	Jack the Ripper (1973) The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town (1976) Jack the Ripper (1988) Sanctuary (2007–2011) Whitechapel (2009–2013) Ripper Street (2012–2013)

episodes	"Wolf in the Fold" (1967) "Comes the Inquisitor" (1995) "Ripper" (1999) "Sanctuary for All" (2008)

Video games

The Ripper (canceled)
Jack the Ripper (1987)
Ripper (1986)
Duke Nukem: Zero Hour (1999)
Shadow Man (1999)
MediEvil 2 (2000)
Jack the Ripper (2003)
Mystery in London: On the Trail of Jack the Ripper (2007)
Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper (2009)

Other

In fiction

Jack the Ripper

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