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Overview

The best-selling autobiography of America’s most controversial celebrity icon, Marilyn Manson (with a bonus chapter not in the hardcover).

In his twenty-nine years, rock idol Manson has experienced more than most people have (or would want to) in a lifetime. Now, in his shocking and candid memoir, he takes readers from backstage to gaol cells, from recording studios to emergency rooms, from the pit of despair to the top of the charts, and recounts his metamorphosis from a frightened Christian schoolboy into the most feared and revered music superstar in the country. Illustrated with dozens of exclusive photographs and featuring a behind-the-scenes account of his headline-grabbing Dead to the World tour.

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His Story Told His Way

He is hated, worshiped, and feared. His music has been the subject of public protests, boycotts, and bans. He has been arrested and even made the subject of a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing. He is Brian Warner, aka Marilyn Manson, one of the biggest — and most controversial — stars in rock music today. In his autobiography, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Manson recounts his life story, details his controversial philosophies, and protests that he is reviled for all the wrong reasons.

Just as Manson's career differs from that of the average rock 'n' roller, so does The Long Hard Road stand apart from the typical "my life with the band" memoir. Instead, it is a raw, unflinching account of Manson's metamorphosis from a frustrated, forward-thinking Christian schoolboy to his current self-proclaimed status of Anti-Christ Superstar. Be forewarned: Manson's tale, rife with sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, and violence, is not for the squeamish, but it is a fascinating account of his struggle to be heard in a society he perceives as being unforgivably complacent.

Manson grew up in Ohio and attended a fundamentalist Christian school through the beginning of his tenth-grade year. This constraining, rigid environment fostered his earliest acts of rebellion; even as a teenager, he was able to intellectualize the absurdity of the school's practices: "If our hair touched our ears, it had to be cut. Everything was regimented and ritualistic, and no one was allowed to stand out as better than or different from anyone else.Itwasn't very useful preparation for the real world: turning all these graduates loose every year with the expectation that life will be fair and everyone will be treated equally." Manson's home life was no relief: His father was an abusive Vietnam veteran and his mother, in Manson's view, wanted nothing more than to perpetuate her son's dependence on her.

Fortunately for Manson, he was irrepressibly creative, and in a chapter entitled "The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Rejection Letters," he shares samples of his earliest efforts at short stories and poetry, none of which were accepted for publication. He eventually managed a fledgling career as a music journalist but remained frustrated: "The problem wasn't the magazines or my writing, but the musicians themselves. Each successive interview I did, the more disillusioned I became. Nobody had anything to say. I felt like I should be answering the questions instead of asking them. I wanted to be on the other side of the pen." Manson's rapid ascension from music writer to fame-bound musician is illustrated by his recollection of conducting an interview with industrial music-master Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails): "The next time Reznor came to town," Manson writes, "I was his opening act."

Manson's road to fame was paved with bad relationships, drug abuse, run-ins with the police, dangerously extreme backstage behavior, infighting among his bandmates, and the struggle to find and maintain his personal and artistic integrity within the music industry. Particularly memorable is his account of his meetings with Anton LaVey, the controversial founder of the Church of Satan (one of Manson's many stops along the path to finding his own moral and philosophical code). Manson often comes across as arrogant, and perhaps never more so than when he explains his identification with LaVey: "In a way, [LaVey's] kind of intellectual elitism (and mine) is actually politically correct because it doesn't judge people by race or creed but by the attainable, equal opportunity criterion of intelligence."

As one reads this frank and absorbing book, which also features Manson's personal photographs, excerpts from his tour journal, and examples of the propaganda spread by those who would silence him, one senses a genuine thoughtfulness on the part of its author, a yearning for self-understanding and growth. He spares no detail, no matter how unflattering, of his journey, and reveals himself as both egotistical and self-loathing, brilliant and foolish.

Alternately enlightening and disturbing, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell is, at its heart, a coming-of-age story. As Manson tells it, journalists, fans, and critics persistently ask him if his persona is an act or if it is genuine; this autobiography provides an opportunity for us to answer that question for ourselves.

— Jamie Weisman

Chicago Sun-Times
Well-written and uncommonly addictive.
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Publisher's Weekly
Superstore Superstar... one of the best-selling music biography titles ever sold, hands down.... This book is a really good example that popular culture is everywhere — even in the suburbs and smaller bedroom communities... the booksellers who understand that stand to gain a lot.
Rolling Stone
Marilyn Manson unleashes the ultimate tell-all.
The Austin Chronicle
A terrific rock & roll saga in the epic vein.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780060987466
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 2/6/1999
  • Pages: 288
  • Sales rank: 36,597
  • Product dimensions: 6.12 (w) x 9.12 (h) x 0.65 (d)

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Marilyn Manson has more than 450 scars, not counting emotional ones.

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Hell to me was my grandfather's cellar. It stank like a public toilet, and was just as filthy. The dank concrete floor was littered with empty beer cans and everything was coated with a film of grease that probably hadn't been wiped since my father was a boy. Accessible only by rickety wooden stairs fixed to a rough stone wall, the cellar was off-limits to everybody except my grand-father. This was his world.
Dangling unconcealed from the wall was a faded red enema bag, a sign of the misplaced confidence Jack Angus Warner had in the fact that even his grandchildren would not dare to trespass. To its right was a warped white medicine cabinet, inside of which were a dozen old boxes of generic, mail-order condoms on the verge of disintegration; a full, rusted can of feminine-deodorant spray; a handful of the latex finger cots that doctors use for rectal exams; and a Friar Tuck toy that popped a boner when its head was pushed in. Behind the stairs was a shelf with about ten paint cans which, I later discovered, were each filled with twenty 16-millimeter porno films. Crowning it all was a small square window—it looked like stained glass, but it was actually stained with a gray grime—and gazing through it really felt like looking up out of the blackness of hell.
What intrigued me most in the cellar was the workbench. It was old and crudely made, as if it had been constructed centuries ago. It was covered with dark orange shag carpeting that looked like the hair on a Raggedy Ann doll, except it had been soiled from years of having dirty tools laid on it. A drawer had been awkwardly built into the bench, but it was always locked. On the rafters above was a cheap full-lengthmirror, the kind with a wooden frame meant to be nailed to the door. But it was nailed to the ceiling for whatever reason—I could only imagine why. This was where my cousin, Chad, and I began our daily and progressively more daring intrusions into my grandfather's secret life.
I was a scrawny thirteen year old with freckles and a bowl cut courtesy of my mother's shears; he was a scrawny twelve year old with freckles and buck teeth. We wanted nothing more than to become detectives, spies or private investigators when we grew up. It was in trying to develop the requisite skills in stealth that we were first exposed to all this iniquity.
At first, all we wanted to do was sneak downstairs and spy on Grandfather without him knowing. But once we started discovering everything that was hidden there, our motives changed. Our after-school forays into the cellar became half teenage boys wanting to find pornography to jerk off to and half a morbid fascination with our grandfather.
Nearly every day we made new and grotesque discoveries. I wasn't very tall, but if I balanced carefully on my grandfather's wooden chair I could reach into the space between the mirror and the ceiling. There I found a stack of black and white bestiality pictures. They weren't from magazines: just individually numbered photographs that looked like they had been handpicked from a mail-order catalog. There were early-seventies photos of women straddling giant horse dicks and sucking pigs' dicks, which looked like soft, fleshy corkscrews. I had seen Playboy and Penthouse before, but these photographs were in another class altogether. It wasn't just that they were obscene. They were surreal—all the women were beaming real innocent flower-child smiles as they sucked and fucked these animals.
There were also fetish magazines like Watersports and Black Beauty stashed behind the mirror. Instead of stealing a whole magazine, we would take a razor blade and carefully cut out certain pages. Then we'd fold them into tiny squares and hide them underneath the large white rocks that framed my grandmother's gravel driveway. Years later, we went back to find them, and they were still there—but frayed, deteriorated and covered with earthworms and slugs.
One afternoon in the fall as Chad and I sat around my grandmother's dining room table after a particularly uneventful day at school, we resolved to find out what was inside the locked workbench drawer. Always hell-bent on stuffing her brood with food, my grandmother, Beatrice, was force-feeding us meat loaf and Jell-O, which was mostly water. She came from a rich family and had tons of money in the bank, but she was so cheap that she'd try to make a single Jell-O package last for months. She used to wear knee-high hose rolled down around her ankles and odd gray wigs that obviously didn't fit. People always told me I resembled her because we were both skinny with the same narrow facial structure.
Nothing in the kitchen had changed as long as I'd been eating her inedible food there. Above the table hung a yellowing picture of the pope in a cheap brass frame. An imposing-looking family tree tracing the Warners back to Poland and Germany, where they were called the Wanamakers, was plastered on the wall nearby. And crowning it all was a large, hollow, wooden crucifix with a gold Jesus on top, a dead palm leaf wrapped around it and a sliding top that concealed a candle and a vial of holy water.
Under the kitchen table, there was a heating vent that led to the workbench in the cellar. Through it, we could hear my grandfather coughing and hacking down there. He had his CB radio on, but he never talked into it. He just listened. He had been hospitalized with throat cancer when I was very young and, for as long as I could remember, I never heard his actual voice, just the jagged wheezing that he forced through his tracheostomy.
We waited until we heard him leave the cellar, abandoned our meat loaf, poured our Jell-O into the heating vent and ventured downstairs. We could hear our grandmother calling futilely after us: "Chad! Brian! Clean the rest of your plates!" We were lucky all she did was yell that afternoon. Typically, if she caught us stealing food, talking back or goofing off, we were forced to kneel on a broomstick in the kitchen for anywhere from fifteen minutes to an hour, which resulted in perpetually bruised and scabbed knees.
Chad and I worked quickly and quietly. We knew what had to be done. Picking a rusted screwdriver off the floor, we pried the workbench drawer open wide enough so we could peek in. The first thing we saw was cellophane: tons of it, wound around something. We couldn't make out what it was. Chad pushed the screwdriver deeper into the drawer. There was hair and lace. He wedged the screwdriver further, and I pulled until the drawer gave way.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 19, 2008

    Surprisingly Amazing

    I was not a huge Manson fan (of his music) when I read this book. Its shock paragraphs kept me salavating when I peeled it open in a bookstore, and it did not dissapoint. I gave the book to my father (50+ yrs old) who loved it as well.

    7 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 28, 2008

    More Than Devils and Demons

    This is not all about Devils and Demons, but an inside look into a pop culture icon's life. Growing up in a small town, Brian Warner made it big. He has done a fine job in expressing his rise to fame from his humble beginnings and realizing that sometimes, 'fitting in' isn't such a great thing to be.

    6 out of 6 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 21, 2008

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    For years I've found Manson very interesting. I just recently purchased the book and finished it quickly because it was tough to put down. At it's end I was left disappointed only because the book wasn't twice it's thickness.

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 17, 2009

    Long Hard Road Out Of Hell

    This book is amazing, I never really knew much about Brian Warner before this book, but now I feel I know everything. He goes into great detail about what he's explaining; I could actually picture the things he expirienced in my head. I would totally recommend getting this book it is deffinently worth it.
    I <3 MARILYN MANSON

    3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 14, 2008

    The Long Hard Road out of Hell

    In true rock star form, Marilyn Manson sticks to the rock & roll tradition of engulfing himself in sex and drugs. Growing up in a small town and taking strange trips into his grandfather¿s secret porn infested basement, we get an angle that the media don¿t tell you. Born Brian Warner, Marilyn Manson experienced a life just like any other child going through school and being picked on. He dealt with his strangeness by selling porn and his hilarious attempts at getting girls to sleep with him. A 270 page account of his sexual encounters 'which includes a very descriptive encounter with an STD' and drug use, we get a look at the man who shocks so many. However, the only problem with this enticing biography is the absence of his parents¿ perspective once he became famous and the fact that the book does not go until the year this book was published. I wanted to hear more about sex, drugs and rock & roll. Overall, absolutely hilarious and an in-depth look at a very intelligent man.

    3 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted February 8, 2012

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    Manson is the Dark Knight

    Now THIS is rock & roll. Whether you're a Manson fan or not, this is a respectable journey of a brave free-thinker who is dedicated to his art like nothing you've seen before. The pages are PACKED with humor, terror & mystery, all wrapped in one shocking human experience. You get chills when he describes his fears, and you can feel his tears as he takes us through his tragedies. If you take nothing else from the book, you should realize this man is a dark knight, taking hatred for attempting to rattle the cages of blind conformity. The grit & grime unsurprisingly cause this to be an R-Rated book, but it's honest & open and worth the experience. This story truly is a road through hell & back.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted September 29, 2009

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    wow

    I have heard of Marilyn's music but was not too huge of a fan of it, but this book is really great! we really get to see the man inside marylin manson. it is very shocking and disturbing, but it helps us better see to darkness that is around the world. things we usually do not imagine really happening.. this book is great and i totally recommend it! awesome!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted July 19, 2009

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    Disturbing, but amazing!

    This was, by far, the sickest, most twisted and disturbing book I've read in a really, really long time. Which is why I couldn't put it down and read it in one sitting. Reading this book is like sitting on Marilyn Manson's shoulder while he's actually living these scenarios. I knew that he was a little...unorthodox...in his life, but this takes him to a whole new level. It humanizes him and made me even more of a fan, not only of his music, but him as a person. It's a MUST read!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 14, 2007

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    i loved this book :] it was amazing.......in this book marilyn manson/brian warner told us his personal buissnes.I thought that it was very interesting and other people would enjoy it.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 5, 2007

    Greatest book I've ever read

    This is the greatest book I have ever read. It is very intersting and once i started reading it I could not put it down. This is the best book for getting to know the life of the rock star!!! You have got to read it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 1, 2007

    Best book i have ever read.

    This is one of the grestest books ever. I loved it! Parts made me sad and other parst made me laugh. I loved it.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 25, 2006

    Marylin Manson's encouter with me in his book!

    When reading this great text I realized that a specific event related to me directly and I wish I had just a few seconds or even minuites to descuss when Marylin Manson's and my life crossed and He wrote about the event when he went to disney world but describing the people behind him in the haunted manson ride while under the influence of my personal favorite lsd. I wish i knew it was him and said hello or rock on. OR even chat with him or even do drugs and I will bring the bag of goodies.

    1 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 4, 2006

    one amazing book...

    wow...a truly mind-blowing look into his life. it was a great book, just as he is a great artist.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 8, 2005

    Shock Value

    Normally when people read a great book, they just reflect and move on with their lives afterwords. I can honestly say that this book has changed my life. Manson, by sharing his advancement into damnation, may have brought hope and inspiration to many people. Even though he had to go through so much in his life, he didn't give up. I wouldn't recommend this book to the faint of heart or the narrow-minded. This has to be my favorite book of all time. Simply amazing.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 14, 2003

    Out of the hundreds of books I've read, this ultimately rates as my favorite.

    Never have I experienced such brilliance and modesty in a single piece of art as this one novel. I'd rather call it a novel than an autobiography due to its superb entertainment value. Manson shows himself off as more of a moralistic human being than any Christian fundementalist or yours truly that have tried to destroy this innocent musician's work, claiming him to be satanic or too explicit or whatever. In this book, I related to Mr. Manson on the most personal level in the regions of emotions and philosophy. The book is very disorganized, when it comes to the timeline of his life and all the buffet of things he decided to mix in (photos, poems, journal writings, etc.), but this represents even further the humanity of Mr. Manson and his ego, which is very similiar to that of a normal intelligent person under his odd situations, not the evil sadistic rock god that mothers across the world think of him.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 17, 2012

    Awesome! Love me some MM! This book was a great look into his li

    Awesome! Love me some MM! This book was a great look into his life and how he came to be Marilyn Manson!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 8, 2012

    MANSON rules I met him once with my non fan friend i became hi

    MANSON rules

    I met him once with my non fan friend i became his fan at 16 she became a Manson fan at the concert ive always been a Manson fan i loved his book he

    really opened up his world and let people inside as for all the people that has never been to a Marilyn Manson concert i feel for you

    its the best entertainment in the world for adults only of course theres always fans flashing him so there will be nudity its basically live

    porn better than stay at home lonely paid for porn if you know what i mean btw if you take off your bra and throw it at him he might not

    give it back he likes to keep them don't get mad look at it this way well now he has something to remember you by so don't worry its a good thing and as for non fans

    and haters thrashing and harassing us why don't you just f*ck off why would you read his book if you dislike him anyway? sounds like

    you have a personal problem to me and to all Manson fans that mosh harder than me at his concerts ive seen you guys it can get

    pretty wild rock on!!! \m/ \m/ to much metal for on hand f*ck yea!!!

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  • Posted April 5, 2012

    i just finished reading this book. even though i have never been

    i just finished reading this book. even though i have never been a "marilyn manson" fan i was interested in knowing who "brian warner" is. This book changed my perspective in who i thought he was. This book is very intriging, couldnt put it down and the most interesting book i have ever read. If i wasnt a fan then I AM ONE NOW. A must read book. There goes to show you "Never judge a book by its cover"

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  • Posted April 3, 2012

    It is a very good book. Well written and very grim in its truths

    It is a very good book. Well written and very grim in its truths about society and religion. Marilyn Manson is a very intelligent man,

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  • Posted April 18, 2011

    Loved it to bits!

    I don't know why it took me so long to write a review on this but here I am. This book was amazing. I finished it in one day, I was so caught up in it that I just couldn't look away from a word. I am a huge mm fan but this just made me see him through a new light.
    He's intelligent and this book defiantly shows that. He did so well with explaining everything in great detail and he was completely honest with all his problems and experiences. I just loved it. That's all I can say. I defiantly recommend it.

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