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Page -
If God is on our side, who is against us?
Romans 8:31
Taken from the Bible.
Page 5
The Devil Damn thee Black...
Macbeth; Act V; Scene III
Excerpt of a dialogue between Macbeth and a servant.
Taken from "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare.
Page 131
...What did I see? Could I believe, that what I saw that night was real and not just fantasy?
Taken from the song "The Number Of The Beast" by Iron Maiden.
From the album "The Number Of The Beast". Music and lyrics by Steve Harris.
Page 136
...Not a prisoner, I'm a free man, live my life how
I want to. Don't care, where the past was, I know where
I'm going...
Taken from the song "The Prisoner" by Iron Maiden.
From the album "The Number Of The Beast". Music and lyrics by Adrian Smith and Steve Harris
Page 5
...some of us are born posthumously...
Nietzsche
Excerpt from "The Antichrist" by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Page 5
...the foetus is conscious or aware. It
can sense and react not only to emotions
such as love and hate, but to more
complex and ambiguous feelings.
Dr Thomas Verny
Dr. Thomas Verny is an American psychologist
Hardback: Part Two, Page 113
Paperback: Part Two, page 113
...death could drop from the dark
As easily as song.
Isaac Rosenburg
Excerpt from the poem "Returning, We Hear The Larks" by the WW2 poet Isaac Rosenburg.
Page 225
...Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil,
to deny life.
D. H. Lawrence
Taken from the poem "Cypresses Fruits" in the book of poems "Birds, Beasts and Flowers".
By David Herbert Lawrence.
Page 225
...And after the fire a still small voice...
Kings 19:12
Taken from the Bible.
Page 1
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus...
Merchant of Venice, Act V, Scene I
Excerpt from Lorenzo's speech.
Taken from "The Merchant Of Venice" by William Shakespeare.
Page 1
Shame on the night.
For places I've been
And what I've seen...
Ronnie James Dio
Taken from the song "Shame On The Night" by Ronnie James Dio.
From the album "Holy Diver". Music and lyrics by Ronnie James Dio.
Page 157
Turn up the lights, I don't want
to go home in the dark...
O. Henry
Last words of O. Henry, the pseudonym of William Sydney Porter,
quoting the song "I'm Afraid To Come Home In The Dark."
Music and lyrics by Egbert Anson Van Alstyne and Harry H. Williams.
Page 157
And the day burns through their blood,
like a white candle through a shuttered
hand...
Roy Campbell
Taken from "The Sisters" by Roy Campbell.
Page 6
Hence, horrible shadow.
Unreal mockery, hence.
Macbeth, Act III, Scene IV
Excerpt from where Macbeth sees ghosts through guilt of murder.
From "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare.
Page 7
Dreams are true while they last, and do
we not live in dreams?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Taken from "The Higher Pantheism" by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Hardback: Part One, page 7
Paperback: Part One, page 7
We're running with the Shadows of
the night...
Pat Benatar
Taken from "Shadows Of The Night" by Pat Benatar.
From the album "Get Nervous". Music and lyrics D. L. Byron.
Page 169
All human beings, as we meet them, are
commingled out of good and evil...
Robert Louis Stevenson
Taken from "The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Page 169
He who shall teach the child to doubt,
Shall ne'er the rotting grave get out.
William Blake
Taken from "Auguries of Innocence" itself from "The Pickering Manuscript" by William Blake.
Page 277
We'll know for the first time,
If we're evil or divine...
Ronnie James Dio
Taken from the song "The Last In Line" by Ronnie James Dio.
From the album "The Last In Line". Music and lyrics by Ronnie James Dio.
Page 277
The evil that men do lives after them...
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II
Excerpt from a speech by Anthony.
Taken from "Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare
Page 5
Close the city and tell the people
that something is coming to call...
Ronnie James Dio
Taken from the song "The Mob Rules" by Black Sabbath.
From the album "Mob Rules". Music and lyrics by Geezer Butler, Ronnie James Dio and Tony Iommi.
Page 8
The oldest and strongest emotion of
mankind is fear, and the oldest and stron-
gest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
H.P. Lovecraft
Taken from "Supernatural Horror In Literature" by H. P. Lovecraft.
Page 9
Beware of night, for we all know he's loose again...
Queensrÿche
Taken from the song "Nightrider" by Queensrÿche.
From the Queensrÿche EP. Music and lyrics by Chris DeGarmo and Michael Wilton.
Page 157
All spirits are enslaved that serve things evil.
P.B. Shelley
Taken from "Prometheus Unbound", line 110, by P. B. Shelley.
Page 207
His heart is black,
His blood is cold,
Returning to destroy our World.
Warrior
Taken from the song "Fighting For The Earth" by Warrior.
From the album "Fighting For The Earth"
Page 7
Hell hath no limits,
Nor is circumscribed in one self place;
for
where we are is Hell,
And
Where Hell is must we ever be...
Christopher Marlowe
Taken from Doctor Faustus, Act II, Scene I, by Christopher Marlowe.
Page 275
Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?
1 Kings Chapter 21:20
Taken from the Bible.
Page 7
It takes two to make a murder. There are
born victims, born to have their throats cut,
as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
You can see it in their faces.
Aldous Huxley
Taken from "Point Counter Point" by novelist and essayist Aldous Huxley.
Hardback: Page 13
Paperback: Page 13
Rather murder an infant in it's cradle than
nurse unsatisfied desire.
Blake
Taken from "Proverbs Of Hell" itself in "The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell" by William Blake.
Page 13
He's not a victim,
You can see it in his face.
Kiss
Taken from the song "Rock And Roll Hell" by Kiss.
From the album "Creatures Of The Night". Music and lyrics by Gene Simmons, Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance.
Page 163
You give me evil fantasies.
I want to get inside your mind
Taken from the song "Evil Fantasies" by Judas Priest.
From the album "Killing Machine" (UK) or "Hell Bent On Leather" (US). Music and lyrics by Glenn Tipton.
Page 163
Madness need not be a breakdown. It
may also be a breakthrough. It is potential
liberation and renewal as well as
enslavement and existential death.
R. D. Laing.
Taken from "The Divided Self" by Ronald David Laing.
Page 288
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone...
Luke 8:7
Taken from the Bible.
Page 288
We all need scapegoats, someone else to blame for what we're
really feeling. Anything, as long as we don't have to face the
truth.
Anon
Page 7
Better to burn out
than fade away
Taken from the song "My My, Hey Hey (Out of The Blue)" by Neil Young.
From the album "Rust Never Sleeps". Music and lyrics by Neil Young
Page 9
...Look like the innocent flower.
But be the serpent under't...
Macbeth
Excerpt from a speech made by Lady Macbeth, convincing her husband to murder his King.
Taken from "Macbeth", act I, scene V, by William Shakespeare.
Page 21
Where Lie your greatest dangers? - In pity.
Nietzsche
Excerpt from "The Gay Science", Book III, 271, by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Page 21
All hell's breaking loose,
In the streets there's a brand new way...
Kiss
Taken from the song "All Hell's Breaking Loose" by Kiss.
From the album "Lick It Up". Music and lyrics by Eric Carr, Paul Stanley, Vinnie Vincent and Gene Simmons.
Page 179
I never ask no questions,
I never speak my mind.
I've always found that silence
helps to keep me and my kind alive...
Judas Priest
Taken from the song "Killing Machine" by Judas Priest.
From the album "Killing Machine" (UK) or "Hell Bent On Leather" (US). Music and lyrics by Glenn Tipton.
Page 179
Hell is a city much like London...
Shelley
Taken from "Peter Bell The Third" by P. B. Shelley.
Pages 189-191
Welcome to the Jungle
We've got fun and games...
We got everything you want, honey we know the names...
We are the people that can find, whatever you may need...
If you got the money, honey, we got your disease...
In the jungle, welcome to the jungle...
Watch it bring you to your knees...
I wanna watch you bleed...
It's gonna bring you down...
Taken from the song "Welcome To The Jungle" by Guns N' Roses.
From the album "Appetite For Destruction". Music and lyrics by Guns N' Roses.
Pages 198-202
Hey, hey, it's coming your way...
Dare you to spit on my grave...
Hey, hey, hell is to pay...
Dare you to spit on my grave...
I will take your sweet dreams with me...
Nightmares will come true...
When you find the keys to madness...
I will pray for you...
If you whisper for my protection...
It will suit me just fine...
Dare to spit on my grave...
Taken from the song "Dare To Spit" by Sword.
From the album "Metalized".
Music and lyrics by Mike Plant and Rick Hughes.
Pages 216-218
Behind the smile, there's danger and the promise to be told...
You'll never get old...
Life's fantasy, to be locked away and still to think you're free...
So live for today...
Tomorrow never comes...
Die young...
Die young...
Taken from the song "Die Young" by Black Sabbath.
From the album "Heaven And Hell". Music and lyrics by Geezer Butler, Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward
Pages 203-205
Suffer little children
Taken from the Bible, Matthew 19:14.
Page 208
...But it was only fantasy. The wall was too high as you can see...
Taken from the song "Hey You" by Pink Floyd.
From the album "The Wall". Music and lyrics by Roger Waters.
Page 210
....When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse, out
of the corner of my eye. I turned to look but it was gone, I
cannot put my finger on it now..
The child has grown, the dream has gone...
Taken from the song "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd.
From the album "The Wall". Music and lyrics by Roger Waters and David Gilmour.
Page 213
Vengeance is mine saith the Lord.
Taken from the Bible, Romans 12:19.
Page 214
His Will be done.
*Possibly* taken from the Bible.
Page 241
Ask and ye shall receive.
Taken from the Bible, Luke 11:9
Page 242
Seek and ye shall find.
Taken from the Bible, Luke 11:9
Page 347
Some wounds never heal. Some pain
is never soothed.
Anon
Page 347
Hatred shouldn't be forgotten. It
should be nurtured. And self-hatred
is the bloom which responds best.
Anon
Page 349
I have looked into the mirror of madness
and seen my own reflection...
May 16, 1988
Page ix
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
Nietzsche
Taken from "Maxims And Arrows", itself from "Twilight Of The Idols" by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Page 1
No life that breathes with human breath,
Has ever truly longed for death.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Taken from 'The Two Voices' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Page 1
For a price I'd do about anything, except
pull the trigger. For that I'd need a pretty
good cause.
Queensrÿche
Taken from the song "Revolution Calling" by Queensrÿche.
From the album "Operation: mindcrime". Music and lyrics by Geoff Tate and Michael Wilton.
Hardback: Page 42
Paperback: Page 54
...In a hotel room I remember the way, we'd do what we do..
Too long, without your touch, too long without your love...
Taken from "Lady Red Light" by Great White.
From the album "Once Bitten". Music and lyrics by Kendall, Russell, Niven and Lardie.
Hardback: Page 47
Paperback: Page 60
...Let me keep on sleeping, forgot that I'm alone..
...One day of faceless living is twenty four hours too long...
Taken from the song "Face The Day" by The Angels.
From the album "Dark Room". Music and lyrics by Rick Brewster, Doc Neeson and John Brewster.
Hardback: Page 75
Paperback: Page 97
We are born into a world where alienation awaits us.
R. D. Laing
Taken from "The Politics of Experience" by Ronald David Laing.
Hardback: Page 75
Paperback: Page 97
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.
Joseph Addison
Taken from 'Cato', act 5, scene 1. By essayist and poet Joseph Addison.
Hardback: Page 134
Paperback: Page 172
No happy endings like they always promised.
Taken from the song "Eyes of a Stranger" by Queensrÿche.
From the album "Operation: mindcrime". Music and lyrics by Chris DeGarmo and Geoff Tate.
Hardback: Page 211
Paperback: Page 273
You know you'd have gone insane if you saw what
I saw.
Iron Maiden
Taken from "Sanctuary" by Iron Maiden.
From the album "Iron Maiden". Music and lyrics by Steve Harris and Paul Di'Anno.
Hardback: Page 211
Paperback: Page 273
He clings firmly out of defiance to a cause which
he has seen through - but he calls it "loyalty".
Nietzsche
Taken from "The Gay Science" by Friedrich Nietzsche
Hardback: Page -
Revenge is a kind of wild justice...
Francis Bacon
Taken from "Of Revenge", itself in "Essays" by Francis Bacon.
Page 1
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power,
the will to power, power itself in man
Nietzsche
Excerpt from "The Antichrist" by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Page 1
I don't believe in Love,
I never have, I never will,
I don't believe in Love,
It's never worth the pain that you feel.
Queensrÿche
Taken from the song "I Don't Believe In Love" by Queensrÿche.
From the album "Operation: mindcrime". Music and lyrics by Chris DeGarmo and Geoff Tate.
Page 29
...Our love is a bed of nails.
Love hurts good on a bed of nails.
I'll lay you down and when all else fails,
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails...
Taken from the song "Bed Of Nails" by Alice Cooper.
From the album "Trash". Music and lyrics by Alice Cooper, Desmond Child and Diane Warren.
Hardback: Page 44
Paperback: Page 45
...skin tight leather on satin sheets...
...Now she's got me surrounded...
Taken from the song "Hard On Me" by Bonfire.
From the album "Point Blank". Music and lyrics by Lessman, Deisinger, Patrik, Schleifer and Ziller.
Page 51
...All alone now, except for the memories.
Of what we had and what we knew.
Everytime I try to leave it behind me.
I see something that reminds me of you...
Taken from the song "Eyes of a Stranger" by Queensrÿche.
From the album "Operation: mindcrime". Music and lyrics by Chris DeGarmo and Geoff Tate.
Hardback: Page 94
Paperback: Page 96
...Lady Red light, rock me tonight...
Taken from "Lady Red Light" by Great White.
From the album "Once Bitten". Music and lyrics by Kendall, Russell, Niven and Lardie.
Hardback: Page 138, 139, 141 and 142
Paperback: Pages 140, 141, 143, and 144
...I see you walking by,
You got that faraway look in your eye...
...I don't need your dirty love.
I don't want you touching me...
...there's a name for girls like you.
You belong in the gutter I know you do...
...You've been out of my life so long,
There's no way I'll stay...
...I don't need your dirty love...
Taken from "Dirty Love" by Thunder.
From the album "Backstreet Symphony". Music and lyrics by Luke Morley.
Hardback: Page 161
Paperback: Page 163
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in
haste but they detest at leisure...
Lord Gordon Byron
Taken from "Don Juan", Canto 13, stanza 4, by Lord Byron.
Hardback: Page 161
Paperback: Page 163
They have the morals of alley cats and minds like
sewers...
Neville Heath, convicted murderer, on women.
A quote from Neville Heath, another English madman who was hanged.
Hardback: Page 295
Paperback: Page 301
Vengeance is mine; I will repay,
saith the Lord
Romans 12:19
Taken from the Bible.
Hardback: Page 295
Paperback: Page 301
In this last and final hour,
You can't hide.
There's nowhere now that you can run...
Black Sabbath
Taken from the song "Call Of The Wild" by Black Sabbath.
From the album "Headless Cross". Music and lyrics by Black Sabbath.
Hardback: Page 432
Paperback: Page 434
He who considers more deeply knows that, whatever his
acts and judgements may be, he is always wrong...
Nietzsche
Taken from "Human, All Too Human", Section 9, Man Alone By Himself, 518, by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Hardback: Page 432
Paperback: Page 434
You can't win. You can't break even and you can't even
get out of the game.
Ginsberg's Law
From Ginsberg's Theorem (Generalized Laws of Thermodynamics)
This is a cynical re-working of The three laws of Thermodynamics
Hardback: Page -
Paperback: Page -
Truth is rarely pure, and never simple
Oscar Wilde
Taken from "The Importance of Being Earnest", act 1, by Oscar Wilde.
Hardback: Page 312
Paperback: Page 403
Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes
mad...
Euripides
Taken from "Fragments" by Euripides.
Page v
Terrible experiences make one wonder
whether he who experiences them is not
something terrible.
Nietzsche
Taken from "Apophthegms And Interludes, 89, by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Page 1
Boys and girls come out to play,
the moon doth shine as bright as day...
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
Taken from the nursery rhyme "Boys and girls, come out to play".
Page 1
Men fear Death, as children fear to
go in the dark...
Francis Bacon
Taken from "Of Death", itself from "Essays" by Francis Bacon.
Pages 61 and 62
...Say your prayers, little one...
...Don't forget, my son, to include everyone...
...Tuck you in, warm within, Keep you free from sin...
...Till the Sandman he comes...
...Sleep with one eye open...
...Gripping your pillow tight...
Exit light, Enter night...
...Take My hand..
...We're off to Never-Never land...
Taken from the song "Enter Sandman" by Metallica.
From the album "Metallica" (or "The Black Album"). Music and lyrics by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.
Page 93
...You never know what you've got, 'til it's gone...
Although a popular cliche, this may be taken from the Chicago song "Hard Habit To Break".
From the album "Chicago 17". Music and lyrics by Steve Kipner and J. Parker.
Pages 111 and 113
...Hey, little sister, scene's sure getting old..
...Don't you think it's time we got to go..
...Let's move it, time to say so long...
Taken from the song "Move It" by Great White.
From the album "...Twice Shy". Music and lyrics by Kendall, Russell, Niven and Lardie.
Page 181
Never trust anyone as far as you can spit and
even then, be careful.
Anon
Page 181
People always turn away, from the eyes of a stranger.
Afraid to know, what lies behind the stare.
Queensrÿche
Taken from the song "Eyes of a Stranger" by Queensrÿche.
From the album "Operation: mindcrime". Music and lyrics by Chris DeGarmo and Geoff Tate
Page -
We are satisfied too that there are no Triads operating in the
UK, simply gangs using Triad nomenclature to inspire fear.
Thus the shadow of the threat of retribution is dispropor-
tionately larger than its substance. The word Triad could be
usefully dropped from the Police vocabulary.
Excerpt from The House of Commons Home Affairs
Committee investigation into the Chinese Community in
Britain Report 1985.
Page -
If you think you haven't got a problem, it's because you haven't
found it yet...
Anonymous Police Officer, London 1993
Page 1
Pleasure is oft a visitant, but pain clings cruelly
to us.
John Keats
Taken from "Endymion", Book 1, lines 907-908 by John Keats.
Page 1
And when I'm walking the dark road, I am the
man who walks alone...
Iron Maiden
Taken from the song "Fear of the Dark" by Iron Maiden.
From the album "Fear of the Dark". Music and lyrics by Steve Harris.
Pages 57 and 58
She's told so many guys to sling their hook..
but I been watching her eyes and I've seen that look...
Taken from the song "Everybody Wants Her" by Thunder.
From the album "Laughing On Judgement Day". Music and lyrics by Luke Morley, Ben Matthews, Garry James and Daniel Bowes.
Pages 72 and 73
You take a mortal man and put him in control..
Watch him become a God...
Taken from the song "Symphony of Destruction" by Megadeth.
From the album "Countdown to Extinction". Music and lyrics by Dave Mustaine.
Page 91
Landmine has taken my sight, taken my speech, taken my hearing...
Taken my arms, taken my legs..
Taken my soul, left me with life in hell...
Taken from the song "One" by Metallica.
From the album "...And Justice For All". Music and lyrics by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.
Page 165
You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war.
Nietzsche
Taken from "Thus Spake Zarathustra", 10, War and Warriors, by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Page 165
Gone insane from the pain they must surely know...
Metallica
Taken from the song "For Whom The Bell Tolls" by Metallica.
From the album "Ride The Lightning". Music and lyrics by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.
Page 204
Loving you is like fire, but I'm tired of getting burned..
Been a long time coming, baby, but the tables just got
turned..
You swallowed up my soul, and you wasted all my youth..
The time has come to face it, it's the moment of truth...
Taken from the song "The Moment of Truth" by Thunder.
From the album "Laughing On Judgement Day".
Music and lyrics by Ben Matthews, Garry James and Daniel Bowes.
Page 346
Under conditions of peace the warlike man
attacks himself.
Nietzsche
Taken from "Beyond Good And Evil", Part Four : Maxims And Interludes, 76, by Friedrich Nietzsche
Page 1
Welcome to where time stands still,
No one leaves and no one will...
Metallica
Taken from the song "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" by Metallica.
From the album "Master of Puppets". Music and lyrics by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.
Page 1
There are maladies that we must not seek to
cure because they protect us from others
that are more serious.
Proust
From "A la recherche du temps perdu" (In Search of Lost Time) by French novelist Marcel Proust.
Hardback: Page 78
Paperback: Page 92
You will die, when I say, you must die...
You coward, you servant, you blindman...
Why am I dying? Hell, have no fear...
Taken from the song "Disposable Heroes" by Metallica.
From the album "Master of Puppets". Music and lyrics by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammet.
Hardback: Page 147
Paperback: Page 173
...I'm inside, open your eyes.
I'm you. Sad but true.
Metallica
Taken from the song "Sad But True" by Metallica.
From the album "Metallica" (or "The Black Album'). Music and lyrics by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.
Hardback: Page 147
Paperback: Page 173
...all that live must die,
Passing through nature
to eternity.
Hamlet Act I Scene II
Spoken by Queen Gertrude to Hamlet.
Taken from Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
Hardback: Page 228 and 230
Paperback: Pages 267 and 269
...On the eve of destruction, a reign of terror rules the streets..
...When the heads start rolling, the Devil comes to let it bleed..
...They pray for your eternal damnation..
...They pray for your soul to keep...
Taken from the song "Alien Nation" by The Scorpions.
From the album "Face The Heat ". Music and lyrics by Rudolf Schenker and Klaus Meine.
Page v
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time
they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
Taken from "A Woman of No Importance", act 2.
By Oscar Wilde.
Page 1
Hell is for children.
And you shouldn't have to pay for your love
With your bones and your flesh
Pat Benatar
Taken from the song "Hell is for Children" by Pat Benatar.
From the album "Crimes of Passion". Music and lyrics by Pat Benatar.
Page 1
Do you hear the children weeping, O my brothers,
Ere the sorrow comes with years?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Taken from "The Cry of the Children" by E. B. Browning.
Hardback: Pages 119-120
Paperback: Pages 140-141
With the lights out, it's less dangerous...
Here we are now, entertain us...
I feel stupid, and contagious...
Here we are now, entertain us...
A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido...
A denial. A denial. A denial...
Taken from the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana.
From the Album "Nevermind". Music and lyrics by Kurt Cobain.
Hardback: Page 159
Paperback: Page 189
...Let me show you how I love you.
It's our secret, you and me.
Let me show you how I love you,
But keep it in the family...
Megadeth
Taken from the song "Family Tree" by Megadeth.
From the Album "Youthanasia". Music and lyrics by Dave Mustaine.
Hardback: Page 159
Paperback: Page 189
...The sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted Devil...
Macbeth, Scene II, Act II
Excerpt from Macbeth, spoken by Lady Macbeth.
Taken from "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare.
Hardback: Page 343
Paperback: Page 405
When I fell from Grace,
I never realized,
How deep the flood was around me.
Queensrÿche
Taken from the song "Someone Else?" by Queensrÿche.
From the "Promised Land B-side (with full band)".
Music and lyrics by Chris DeGarmo and Geoff Tate.
Page vii
The IRA have decided that as of midnight, 31 August,
there will be a complete cessation of military operations.
All out units have been instructed accordingly.
IRA statement, 11 a.m. August 31, 1994
Taken from a press release in English newspaper "The Daily Mirror".
Page viii
Man still has one belief. One decree that
stands alone. The laying down of arms is like
cancer to their bones...
Taken from the song "Elysian Fields" by Megadeth.
From the album "Youthanasia". Music by Dave Mustaine. Lyrics by Dave Mustaine and David Ellefson.
Pages 9-11
Almost called it today...
Turned my face to the void, along with the suffering...
And the question, why am I..?
So many times I've tried and failed, to gather my courage, reach again for that nail...
Life's been like dragging feet through sand, and never finding a Promised Land...
Taken from the song "Promised Land" by Queensrÿche.
From the album "Promised Land".
Music and lyrics by Chris DeGarmo, Eddie Jackson, Scott Rockenfield, Geoff Tate and Michael Wilton.
Hardback: Page 10
Paperback: Page 13
I hope the end is less painful than my life...
Taken from the song "Elysian Fields" by Megadeth.
From the album "Youthanasia". Music by Dave Mustaine. Lyrics by Dave Mustaine and David Ellefson.
Hardback: Pages 17-18
Paperback: Pages 21-22
...all of the people who won't be missed, you've made my shitlist...
...all the ones who put me out...
...all the ones who fill my head with doubt...
Taken from the song "Shitlist" by L7.
From the album "Bricks Are Heavy". Music and lyrics by Donita Sparks
Hardback: Page 143
Paperback: Page 170
...If that's the only thing that's stopping the war, then thank God for the bomb...
Ozzy Osbourne
Taken from the song "Thank God For The Bomb" by Ozzy Osbourne.
From the album "The Ultimate Sin".
Music and lyrics by Ozzy Osbourne and Jake E. Lee.
Hardback: Page 308
Paperback: Page 365
Don't ever try to change what you don't understand.
Live your life on the sharp edge...
Sword
Taken from the song "Life On The Edge" by Sword.
From the album "Sweet Dreams". Music and lyrics by Rick Hughes
Page -
Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham Cowley
By English metaphysical poet Abraham Cowley.
From "To Dr Scarborough", stanza 6.
Hardback: Page 160
Paperback: Page 160
These are the paintings that D.I. David Grant recognises in Dr. Charlotte Kilbride's Harley Street office
"And When Did You Last See Your Father?"
By W. F. Yeames.
"1814"
By Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier.
Page 346
...And if I close my mind in fear,
please pry it open...
Metallica
Taken from the song "The Outlaw Torn" by Metallica.
From the album "Load". Music and lyrics by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.
Page xi
Everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
Andy Warhol
Taken from "Andy Warhol" by Andy Warhol.
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Look down on me, you will see a fool. Look up at me, you will
see your Lord. Look straight at me, you will see yourself.
Charles Manson
A quote from American cult-leader Charles Manson.
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Paperback: Page 3
You're coming home, there's blood on the walls.
When Charlie and the family make house calls.
Ozzy Osbourne
Taken from the song "Bloodbath In Paradise" by Ozzy Osbourne.
From the album "No Rest For The Wicked".
Music and lyrics by Ozzy Osbourne, Zakk Wylde, John Sinclair, Randy Castillo and Bob Daisley.
Hardback: Page 3
Paperback: Page 5
Looks like Warhol wasn't wrong,
Fame fifteen minutes long.
Everyone's using, everybody's making the sale.
Queensrÿche
Taken from the song "Revolution Calling" by Queensrÿche.
From the album "Operation: mindcrime". Music and lyrics by Geoff Tate, Michael Wilton and Chris DeGarmo.
Hardback: Page 3
Paperback: Page 5
I wanna be somebody, be somebody too.
I wanna be somebody, be somebody soon.
W.A.S.P
Taken from the song "I Wanna Be Somebody" by W.A.S.P.
From the album "W.A.S.P.". Music and lyrics by Blackie Lawless.
Hardback: Page 27
Paperback: Page 34
Do you see the terror in her eyes, Ian?
Myra Hindley
A quote from moors murderer Myra Hindley.
Hardback: Page 27
Paperback: Page 34
God save Myra Hindley, God save Ian Brady,
Even though he's horrible and she ain't what
you call a lady...
The Sex Pistols
Taken from the song "No One Is Innocent" by The Sex Pistols.
From the album "The Great Rock N Roll Swindle". Music and lyrics by The Sex Pistols.
Hardback: Page 46
Paperback: Page 58
Will you be there, am I the one who waits for you, or are you
unforgiven too?
Taken from the song "The Unforgiven II" by Metallica.
From the album "Reload". Music and lyrics by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett.
Hardback: Page 68
Paperback: Page 84
People don't know me, they think they do, but they don't.
Andrew Cunanan
A quote from gay spree killer Andrew Cunanan.
Hardback: Page 68
Paperback: Page 84
People always turn away, from the eyes of a stranger.
Afraid to know what lies behind the stare.
Queensrÿche
Taken from the song "Eyes of a Stranger" by Queensrÿche.
From the album "Operation: mindcrime". Music and lyrics by Chris DeGarmo and Geoff Tate.
Hardback: Page 91
Paperback: Page 111
We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are
everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead
tomorrow.
Ted Bundy
A quote from American serial killer Theodore Robert Bundy.
Hardback: Page 91
Paperback: Page 111
Look inside, open your eyes.
I'm you. Sad, but true.
Metallica
Taken from the song "Sad But True" by Metallica.
From the album "Metallica" (or "The Black Album'). Music and lyrics by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.
Hardback: Page 130
Paperback: Page 159
These are the paintings that Adam Walker sees in his father's room at Bayfield House Nursing Home
"Agony In The Garden"
By El Greco.
"The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine"
By Antonio Allegri da Correggio.
Hardback: Page 145
Paperback: Page 179
The women I killed were filth-bastard prostitutes who were
littering the streets. I was just cleaning up the place a bit.
Peter Sutcliffe, "The Yorkshire Ripper'
A quote from English serial killer Peter Sutcliffe.
Hardback: Page 145
Paperback: Page 179
OK, now you're on your own.
Your self righteousness has grown...
The Ruts
Taken from the song "Something That I Said" by The Ruts.
From the album "The Crack".
Hardback: Page 153
Paperback: Page 188
...I'm all out of faith, this is how I feel...
...I'm cold and I am shamed, lying naked on the floor...
...Illusion never changed, into something real...
Taken from the song "Torn" by the lovely Natalie Imbruglia.
From the album "Left of the Middle". Music and lyrics by Thornalley, Cutler and Previn.
Hardback: Page 207
Paperback: Page 257
I wished I could stop but I could not.
I had no other thrill or happiness.
Dennis Nilsen
A quote from English serial killer Dennis Nilsen.
Hardback: Page 207
Paperback: Page 257
I've crashed to the bottom of the barrel,
I've got feelings that could kill...
Harlow
Taken from the song "Empty" from the album "Harlow". Music and lyrics by T. Straley and B. Ford.
Hardback: Page 449
Paperback: Page 545
Just when all seems fine and I'm pain-free,
You jab another pin, you jab another pin in me...
Metallica
Taken from the song "Fixxxer" by Metallica.
From the album "Reload". Music and lyrics by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett.
Hardback: Page 451
Paperback: Page 547
He who despairs over an event is a coward,
but he who holds hope for the human condition is
a fool.
Albert Camus
Taken from "The Rebel" by Albert Camus
Hardback: Page xii
Paperback: Page xi
What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life's page.
And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Byron
Taken from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the second, stanza XCVIII, by Lord Byron.
Hardback: Page 230
Paperback: Page 285 & 286
...She was some kind of priestess, with a black dress on...
...With her film star kind of features, she really turned me on...
Taken from the song "She's So Fine" by Thunder.
From the album "Backstreet Symphony". Music and lyrics by Morley and Taylor.
Hardback: Page 235
Paperback: Page 291 & 292
...Love is a killer, a homicidal thing..
...I've got a target on my back, for a Cupid dressed in black...
Taken from the song "Love Is A Killer" by Vixen.
From the album "Rev It Up". Music and lyrics by R. Petrucci and H. Paress.
Hardback: Page 260
Paperback: Page 322
...What a storm is threatening, my very life today...
...If I don't get some shelter, I'm going to fade away...
Taken from the song "Gimme Shelter" by The Rolling Stones.
From the album "Gimme Shelter". Music and lyrics by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
Hardback: Page 415
Paperback: Page 509
Police say they have to recruit from within Yardie ranks to gather
the information to catch gang bosses. One detective said: 'It is a
dirty game, but a necessary one.'
Express, 6 March 1999
Hardback: Page 417
Paperback: Page 511
...Now they all pray, bloodstains wash away...
Metallica
Taken from the song "Ronnie" by Metallica.
From the album "Load". Music and lyrics by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.
Page xi
Though this may be play to you, 'tis death to us.
Sir Roger L'Estrange
Taken from Aesop's Fables, 398. by Sir Roger L'Estrange.
Hardback: Page 77
Paperback: Page 96
...Now we lay you down to rest, you're never gonna be more than second best...
...roll the dice, don't think twice, we crush, crush, crush 'em...
Taken from the song "Crush 'Em" by Megadeth.
From the album "Risk". Music and lyrics by Dave Mustaine, Bud Prager and Marty Friedman.
Hardback: Page 80
Paperback: Page 99
...What can I do to make you love me..
Taken from the song "What Can I Do" by The Corrs.
From the album "Talk On Corners". Music and lyrics by The Corrs.
Page xi
Cos I'm losing my sight, losing my mind, wish
somebody would tell me I'm fine...
Papa Roach
Taken from the song "Last Resort" by Papa Roach.
From the album "Infest". Music and lyrics by D. Buckner, T.J. Esperance, J. Hornton Jr and J. Shaddix.
Page xiii
Psychoanalyse the chapters,
on the path to my darkest day.
Searching for the answers,
all I see is damage through the haze.
Queensryche
Taken from the song "Damaged" by Queensryche.
From the album "Promised Land". Music and lyrics by Chris DeGarmo.
Hardback: Pages 44 and 45
Paperback: Pages 49 and 50
...You had time to waste, time to wonder...
...Time, to become someone else...
...Might be a good thing, might be a bad thing...
...But you can't put your arms around a memory.
Taken from the song "Break My Heart" by Baby Animals.
From the album "Baby Animals". Music and lyrics by Suze DeMarchi and Eddie Parise.
Hardback: Page 61
Paperback: Page 69
Nietzsche: WILL A SELF AND THOU SHALT BECOME A SELF.
Taken from "Mixed Opinion and Maxims", 366, by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Hardback: Pages 110 and 112
Paperback: Pages 126 and 127
Lost in your dreams, nothing's what it seems...
Searching my head, for the words that you said..
We lied to each other so much, now in nothing we trust.
Taken from the song "Trust" by Megadeth.
From the album "Cryptic Writings". Music and lyrics by Dave Mustaine and Marty Friedman.
Hardback: Pages 148 and 149
Paperback: Page 173 and 174
Fallen angel, ripped and bruised, think of better days...
Life is rude, treats you bad, tears your wings away...
Take your dreams, broken schemes, and sweep the past away...
Fly, lonely angel above these streets of fire...
Taken from the song "The Angel Song" by Great White.
From the album "...Twice Shy". Music and lyrics by Kendall and Niven.
Page x
Often the fear of one evil leads us into a worse.
Nicholas Boileau
From "L'Art Poétique" (I, 64) by Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux.
Pages 56 & 59
I've been wrong, I've been down, been to the bottom of every bottle
These five words in my head scream, "Are we having fun yet?"
Taken from the song "How You Remind Me" by Nickelback.
From the album "Silver Side Up". Music and lyrics by Nickelback.
Page 78
...So many years to go by, so many tears to fill your eyes...
So many fears to lock behind the door...
Taken from the song "She Only" by Great White.
From the album "...Twice Shy". Music and lyrics by Words and music by Kendall, Russell, Niven and Lardie.
Page 80
...Well, I've heard it a million times, now it's payback time.
Taken from the song "Payback" by Backyard Babies.
From the album "Making Enemies Is Good". Music and lyrics by ?
Page 106
Cherry stem in her mouth she could tie in a knot...
Favourite trick she does, one of ten that she's got...
Makin' friends, setting trends hardly having to try...
All her looks, by the book, best that money can buy...
Look what your money bought...
It's all that she's got...
Taken from the song "Money Bought" by Nickelback.
From the album "Silver Side Up". Music and lyrics by Nickelback.
Pages 135, 136 & 138
How do I feel, I've been here before, I've felt this...
Retreat to a place, a place within me, I need this...
Keep it all down, bottled inside, it breaks me...
...to torment again and torture me like it used to...
He's drunk again it's time to fight...
Tonight she'll find out how fucking tough is this man...
Taken from the song "Change" by Staind.
From the album "Break The Cycle". Music and lyrics by ?
Pages 139-141
Never again, seen it before but not like this...
Been there before but not like this...
Never before have I ever seen it this bad...
Never again...
Taken from the song "Never Again" by Nickelback.
From the album "Silver Side Up". Music and lyrics by Nickelback.
Pages 189 & 190
...I don't want to say I'm sorry, 'cos I know there's nothing wrong...
...Don't be afraid, there's no need to worry, 'cos my feelings for you are strong...
...I can see it in your eyes, there is something, something you want to tell me...
...see it in your eyes, there is something, that you hide from me...
Is there a reason why there is something, something you want to tell me...
Taken from the song "Something" by Lasgo.
From the album "Some Things". Music and lyrics by Jef Martens and Peter Luts
Page x
...We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and
the apes were armed killers besides...
Robert Ardrey
From "African Genesis" by Robert Ardrey.
Page 20
...When the lights turn green and your body screams, meltdown time, 'til we're blind... Burning rubber, oh, body heat...
...Burning rubber, cover me...
Taken from the song "?" by ?.
From the album "?". Music and lyrics by ?.
Page xi
'There is no turning back now you've woken up the demon in me.'
Disturbed
Taken from the song "Down With The Sickness" by Disturbed.
From the album "The Sickness". Music and lyrics by ?.
Page 26
...There's a secret place, I like to go...
...Everyone is there, but their face don't show...
...If you step inside, you can't get out...
Taken from the song "A Secret Place" by Megadeth.
From the album "Cryptic Writings". Music and lyrics by Dave Mustaine.
Page -
'What survives myself? The brazen statue to o'erlook
my grave, set on the promontory I named.'
Robert Browning
Taken from the poem "Cleon" by Robert Browning.
Hardback: Page 275
Paperback: Page ?
'I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is
no sin but ignorance.'
Christopher Marlowe
Taken from the play "The Jew of Malta" by Christopher Marlowe.
Hardback: Page ix
Paperback: Page ?
'Where there is no imagination there is no horror.'
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Taken from chapter 5 of the first Sherlock Holmes novel "A Study In Scarlet" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Hardback: Page 358
Paperback: Page ?
'Let them perish through their own imaginations.'
Psalms 5:11
Taken from the Bible.
Hardback: Page 4
'The basis of optimism is sheer terror'.
Perhaps one day everyone will realize it
The first part is taken from chapter six of The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde.
Hardback: Page 5
Dum-Dum bullets are prohibited, also no
other bullets may be transformed into Dum-Dum
Number Five in the German Soldier's
Ten Commandments. (Printed in every German
Soldier's paybook)
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Omnibus: Page 5
...I could not, of course, eliminate all lice
nor all Jews in only a year, but in the course of
time this end will be attained.
Extract from a letter written by Hans Frank,
Governor-General of Poland, dated 1940
Hardback: Page ?
Paperback: Page 5
Tis strange - but true; for truth is
always strange...
Byron
Taken from Canto xiv, stanza 101,
by Lord Byron.
Hardback: Page ?
Paperback: Page -1
Fifty billion planets,
there's got to be some life.
Don't tell me I'm the only one
standing in the night...
Saxon
Taken from the song "Watching The Sky" by Saxon.
From the album "Power And The Glory".
Music and lyrics by Peter Byford, Paul Quinn, Graham Oliver, Steve Dawson and Nigel Glockler.
Hardback: Page ?
Paperback: Page 5
What is happiness? - The feeling that power
increases - that a resistance is overcome...
Nietzsche
Taken from "The Antichrist", 2, by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Hardback: Page ?
Paperback: Part One, page 7
...For he whom they feared, awaited them.
Motley Crue
Taken from the song "In The Beginning" by Motley Crue.
From the album "Shout At The Devil". (Thanks to Nick Ferguson for this info)
Music by Geoff Workman. Narration by Nikki Sixx.
Hardback: Page ?
Paperback: Part Two, page 103
Only where life is, there is also will:not will to life
but - so I teach you - will to power...
Nietzsche
Taken from "Thus Spake Zarathustra", XXXIV, Self-Surpassing by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Page 5
'...We are not prepared to compromise the liberty of the Falkland Islanders'
- Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
'...It is not an invasion, but the recovery of territory which is Argentina's'
- General Leopoldo Galtieri