WITCHES - Jack the Ripper

A Victorian Occult Horror of Blood and Fog

By: Ethan Blackwood

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

In the gaslit alleys of 1888 London, a new terror stalks the night. The press calls him the Ripper. The police hunt for a man—a madman, a butcher, a ghost who melts back into the fog. They are all wrong.

Inspector Alden Cross, a brilliant detective who trusts only logic and evidence, is assigned to the case that is whipping the city into a frenzy of fear. But when a strange, star-shaped symbol is found carved into a victim, he realizes this is no ordinary killer. His investigation pulls him from the grim reality of Scotland Yard into a hidden world of ancient conspiracies and impossible forces.

He discovers the murders are not random acts of violence, but calculated ritual sacrifices performed by a secret coven of powerful women. Their goal: to harness the city’s terror and feed a slumbering, primordial entity that lies beneath the cobblestones. As Alden is stripped of his career and branded a lunatic, he must fight alone, hunted by both the law and the coven. To save London, he must embrace the darkness and confront a horror his scientific mind refuses to accept, before the final sacrifice is made and a new age of chaos is born from the fog.

A great mix up of a few genres - Sherlock & Cthulhu & Witches!

I really enjoyed this strange mash up of a few different horror fields. A Sherlock Holmes kinda detective battling Jack the Ripper, then a weird Cthulhu cult gets uncovered trying to resurrect an frighting Lovecraftian alien god from its hell-dimension by some extremely powerful witches. Really exciting stuff, only the big problem here is it goes past so fast you left wanting much much more.

Not a fan of virtual voice

I'm not a fan of virtual voice. It seems to lack the emotions. Yes, it has the rise and fall of a voice, so it isn't monotoned, but that's it.

The story seemed a little rushed, not a lot of character development. I liked the concept, but not the execution of the story or the performance.