Obsessed with the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Jack the Ripper became the name of horror in the late Eighteen hundreds. But were his killings the act of a madman, or did they have a deeper, unknown purpose. A teenage boy, Bobby Crowe, and Detective Kevin Daulton are about to find out as the spirit of Jack the Ripper returns to haunt a small, Ohio town. Can these two mortals unravel the mysteries of death? Or will they, too, fall victim to the Shadow of the Ripper?