Hello Harlan Ellison fans. The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World is an endlessly fascinating tale that took Harlan Ellison fifteen months - off and on - to write. The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World was originally published in 1967 as part of Dangerous Visions with artwork by Leo and Diane Dillon.
Here are a few snips (with my modest edits) from an overview of Harlan's tale via Wiki:
"Jack
the Ripper appears inexplicably in a sterile futuristic metropolis,
where anyone is free to do what they want however arcane or immoral.
Jack
proceeds to kill. Jack is surprised to discover that there are other
mental presences or personalities coexisting within his own mind,
commenting on the brutality of his acts as if they were spectators at a
theatrical performance or aesthetes critiquing a work of art in a
museum.
Although recognizably human in form, the future City's
denizens have powers of matter manipulation, time travel, and telepathy.
They can both read and manipulate Jack the Ripper's mind.
They
proceed for their own malign amusement to mentally expose him to his own
subconscious lusts, desires, and petty hatreds; prior to their
interference he had suppressed his awareness of these urges."
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