Editing Jack Ketch (section)

== Fiction ==
In 1836, a fictitious autobiography of Ketch, with illustrations from designs by Meadows entitled ''The autobiography of Jack Ketch'', was published.<ref name = "KetchDNB"/><ref name="Whitehead1835">{{cite book|last=Whitehead|first=Charles|title=The autobiography of Jack Ketch|url=https://archive.org/details/autobiographyja00whitgoog|access-date=23 August 2010|year=1835|publisher=Carey, Lea & Blanchard}}</ref> Another book entitled ''Life of Jack Ketch with Cuts of his own Execution'' was furnished by Tom Hood for the Duke of Devonshire's library at Chatsworth.<ref name = "KetchDNB"/>

Jack Ketch is one of the characters in [[Giovanni Piccini]] (d. 1835) ''The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of [[Punch and Judy]]'' as dictated to [[John Payne Collier]], in 1828.{{sfn|Banham|1995|p=888}} He is mentioned in the [[Charles Dickens]] novels ''[[Oliver Twist]]'', ''[[Dombey and Son]]'', ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]''<ref name="Dickens1837">{{cite book|last=Dickens|first=Charles|title=The Pickwick Papers|year=1837|publisher=Premier Classics|page=119|isbn=978-0-307-29175-2}}</ref> and ''[[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]]'' and in the [[Cyril M. Kornbluth|C. M. Kornbluth]] science fiction story "[[The Marching Morons]]" (1951). More recently, Jack Ketch plays a role in [[Neal Stephenson]]'s 2003 and 2004 volumes ''[[Quicksilver (novel)|Quicksilver]]'' and  ''[[The System of the World (novel)|The System of the World]]'', the first and last volumes, respectively, in his ''[[The Baroque Cycle]]'' series (though the last volume is set in 1714, well after the death of the historical Jack Ketch.) Ketch makes a brief appearance in issue #10 of [[Bill Willingham]]'s comic book series [[Fables (comics)|''Fables'']] and in the first book of [[Ben Aaronovitch]] Rivers of London series.

He is mentioned briefly in the 1951 movie of ''A Christmas Carol'' with [[Alistair Sim]], when Mr. Jorkin warns the directors of the Amalgamated Mercantile Society to watch out for Scrooge and Marley, as "They'd skin Jack Ketch alive and he'd never know they'd done it."

The long-running radio program [[Suspense (radio drama)|Suspense]] aired an episode titled "Jack Ketch" starring British actor Charles Laughton on September 22, 1952.