A rising number of literary works have been published in the last few decades which concentrate on the Victorian age. These recent novels are called Neo-Victorian, and there is a growing field of study that explores the interpretation of these works. Beside Neo-Victorianism, another relatively recent theory is hauntology, which has its roots in Jacques Derrida’s studies, and seemingly has its own common ground with Neo-Victorianism. My aim in this thesis is to gain a more in-depth knowledge about Neo-Victorianism, hauntology and the Jack the Ripper killings in order to be able to better examine these separate topics when they cross each other in literary texts, particularly my chosen novel, Paula Marantz Cohen’s What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James & Jack the Ripper.