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This article refers to the book. For the song see Long Hard Road out of Hell.

The Long Hard Road out of Hell
Written by Marilyn Manson Neil Strauss
Released:	April 1, 1999
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Publisher:	ReganBooks
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Length:	288 pages
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The Long Hard Road out of Hell is the first autobiography by Marilyn Manson (with assistance by Neil Strauss of Rolling Stone), released on April 1, 1999 by ReganBooks. It follows Manson's life from a child who discovers his grandfather's sexual fetishism, to the forming of Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids, to the recording of Antichrist Superstar. Its last pages contain the journal of the band's touring, documenting backstage events and people's reactions. The book itself includes many references to his life of drugs, sex and twisted relationships that led him to where he would be up until 1998, and even now (to some extent).

The autobiography also goes in-depth into the break-ups amongst the band's history. It follows several members through becoming friends and musicians with the band to angry and sometimes bitter leavings, some bands members detest being fired so badly that lawsuits have been filed against Manson by his own crew members.

Along with the book are numerous pictures, some of which are familiar to long-time Manson fans, with the center pages including everything from the Slasher Girls to Manson performing "Antichrist Superstar" with a Bible in his hand. More exciting, perhaps, are the numerous pictures scattered throughout the pages, documenting such things as girlfriends and band landmarks, to the rarer, such as Manson with Anton Szandor LaVey, to whom the book is dedicated to.

Chapter listing

Part one: when i was a worm

1. "The Man That You Fear"

2. "For Those About to Rock, We Suspend You"

3. "Teen Dabbler"

4. "The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Rejection Letters"

5. "I Wasn't Born with Enough Middle Fingers"

Part two: deformography

6. "The Spooky Kids"

7. "Dirty Rock Star"

8. "To All the People Who Didn't Die"

9. "The Rules"

10. "All for Nothing"

11. "We're Off to See the Wizard"

12. "Abuse, Parts One and Two"

13. "Meating the Fans / Meat and Greet"

Part three: how i got my wings

14. "The Reflecting God [dreams]"

15. "Antichrist Superstar"

16. Fifty Million Screaming Christians Can't Be Wrong"

17. "Acknowledgments"

18. "Photo Credits"

Quotes

The following quotes have been lifted from the back cover of the autobiography:

• "By turns moving, funny, appalling, and disturbing. . . . There has never been anything like it." — Rolling stone
• "Unimaginably perverse and demented." — Newsweek
• "Fascinating, sleazy account of his coming of age and ascent into damnation." — Us
• "Makes Madonna's infamous Sex seem downright wholesome by comparison." — Elle
• "If Marquis de Sade had a son in a hard-rock band who wrote a book, this would be the book." — Christian Science Monitor
• "Repulsive. . . . lots of sex, bondage, drugs, intrigue, and metal decay." — Village Voice
• "Clipped, colorful prose that fits the author's larger-than-life personality like a pair of rubber shorts." — Paper

Autobiography Credits

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Aleusha, Alyssa, Andrew and Suzie, Reverend Ernest Angley, Fiona Apple, Tom Arnold, Daniel Ash, Asia, Big Darla, Blanche Barton, Sean Beavan, Mrs. Burdick, Paul Cambria, Carl, Casey, Chad, Carolyn Cole, Corey, Billy Corgan, Keith Cost, John Crowell and his brother, Dave, Freddy DeMann, Aaron Dilks, Dimebag Darrel, Eden, Corey Feldman, Robin Finck, Flavor Flav, Frankie, Frog, Michelle Gill, John Glazer, Sherman Helmsley, Jimmy Iovine, Jay and Tim, John Jacobs, Jenna Jameson, Jeanine, Jebediah, Jennifer, Jessicka, Jonathan, Jack Kearnie, Kelly's Cornhole, Bill Kennedy, Richard Kent, Mary Beth Kroger, Xerxes Satan LaVey, Lenny, Mr. Lifto, Lisa, Traci Lords, Louise, Courtney Love, David Lynch, Lynn, John A. Malm Jr., Marie, Dave Navarro, Conan O'Brien, Dave Ogilvie, Guy Oseary, Paul and Richard, Saucy Peterson, Robert Pierce, Tina Potts, Ms. Price, Rachelle, Trent Reznor, Joan Rivers, Jim Rose, Rick Rubin's Beard, Neil Ruble, Shana, Sioux Z., Bob Slade, The Slashers, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Howard Stern, Teresa, Terri, DJ Tim, John Tovar, Jill Tucker, Julia Valet, Barb and Hugh Warner, Beatrice and Jack Warner, Brian Warner, Tony Wiggins, The Wyer Family, and Zepp.

Photo Credits

• Sigismondi Floria - p. ii, p. 43, p. 212
• Dean Karr - p. xiii, p. 3, p. 6, p. 9, p. 12, p. 14, p. 15, p. 74-75, p. 77, p. 204-205, p. 207, p. * 214, p. 222, p. 229, p. 268, p. 270,
• Joseph Cultice - p. 1, p. 2, p. 4, p. 8, p. 103, p. 112, p. 128-129, p. p. 157, p. 184, p. 239, p. * 271
• Jeffery Weiss - p. 127
• Jim Lanza - p. 5, p. 13, p. 151, p. 264 (Dad and Zepp; Cambria et al.; Ozzy), p. 268
• Gene Shaw - p. 156
• Blanche Barton - p. 166-167
• Myk Mishoe - p. 208
• Monét Mazur - p. 264 (Navarro)
• Melissa Auf Der Maur - p. 264 (Corgan)
• Bob Mussell - p. p. 7, p. 16

All other photos courtesy of the author's collection

Illustrations on p. iv from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno
by Allen Mandelbaum, translation copyright © 1980 by Allen Mandelbaum.
Used by permission of Bantam Books, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

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Personnel

• Marilyn Manson - author
• Neil Strauss - co-author
• P.R. Brown – digital illustration, design
• David Lynch - introduction
• Friedrich Nietzsche - excerpt on the Genealogy of Morals
• Blanche Barton - photography
• Bob Mussell - photography
• Dean Karr - photography
• Gene Shaw - photography
• Jeffery Weiss - photography
• Jim Lanza - photography
• Joseph Cultice - photography
• Melissa Auf Der Maur - photography
• Monét Mazur - photography
• Myk Mishoe - photography
• Sigismondi Floria - photography