From Hell in the alley below. In "The Dance of the Gull Catchers" Moore reports that he had been drawn into and even obsessed with the particulars of the Ripper murders. The Ripperologists—or "Gull Catchers" as he refers to them—are depicted as unhinged men running about with large butterfly nets, chasing details and connections, however tenuous. Initially, Moore observes them from a distance, but eventually—while researching and writing "From Hell"—he joins them. Moore compares the multitude of increasingly outlandish Ripper theories to a Koch snowflake, where a finite, fixed location, event and era (London, in late 1888) can have an infinite number
A Glimpse of Hell (film) A Glimpse of Hell (film) A Glimpse of Hell is a 2001 Canadian made-for-television drama film that was initially shown on FX network. It was released in the United States on March 18, 2001. It was filmed in Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada and stars James Caan, Robert Sean Leonard, and Daniel Roebuck. It was directed by Mikael Salomon. The film is based on the book "A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up" by Charles C. Thompson II about the 1989 turret explosion incident on and its aftermath. Buzz McClain of allmovie gave the movie