Editing From Hell (section)

== Development ==
Moore began developing the plot for ''From Hell'' in the late 1980s. Writer [[Neil Gaiman]] recalled Moore calling him up to discuss a television documentary he had just seen about Jack the Ripper, and then asking for Gaiman's help tracking down "rare and forgotten biographies of possible Ripper suspects at the [[British Museum]]".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Gaiman|first=Neil|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/939277355|title=The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction|date=2016|isbn=978-0-06-226226-4|location=New York, NY|pages=248|oclc=939277355}}</ref>

''From Hell'' takes as its premise [[Stephen Knight (author)|Stephen Knight]]'s theory that the Jack the Ripper murders were part of a [[Jack the Ripper conspiracy theories|conspiracy]] to conceal the birth of an illegitimate [[British monarchy|royal]] baby fathered by [[Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence]], slightly modified: the involvement of [[Walter Sickert]] is reduced, and Knight's allegation that the child's mother was a Catholic has been dropped. Knight's theories have been described as "a good fictional read" whose "conclusions have been disproved numerous times".<ref>[http://casebook.org/ripper_media/book_reviews/non-fiction/finalsol.html "Jack The Ripper: The Final Solution"]. Casebook: Jack the Ripper. Retrieved 25 September 2019.</ref>