London Fortean Society

28 February 2013 –8pm - 10.30pm (inc. Q&A, talk ends approx. 9pm) £3 / £2 concs  The Whitechapel Murderer has become for many the archetypal “lurker in the shadows” – bogeyman and arch supervillain, folklore filmstar and mainstay of the modern Halloween. Ripper author and researcher John Bennett examines how a very real killer became a universal icon of fear, via mass hysteria, urban legend, psychogeography and conspiracy. John is the author of Jack the Ripper: The Making of the Myth . Each LFS evening begins with the Fortmanteau, our monthly summary of strange news stories, this month our Fortmanteu is from special guest Jude Monteque Cowan .         We meet the last Thursday of each month (usually) upstairs at fantastic pub  The Bell , 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX.   Tubes: Liverpool Street, Aldgate, Aldgate East.