Excerpts From The Upcoming Book
Emilie Autumn

And when i looked out i saw that we were heading fast upon a series of Iron gates set in stone, wickedly arched, and crowned with tall spikes. But what unnerved me completely was beyond the gates, a set of doors, heavy and wooden, pointed arched towering higher than any entrance to any building i had ever seen. Crossed with iron bars, and studded with heavy bolts, the doors were set in a great wall that appeared to be protecting whatever waited inside.

So paralysed was i by the sight before me, i did not notice that we had already driven past the first of the three spiked gates guarding access to the door, until i heard it crashing to a close behind us. Where am i? A short drive onward and we were at the second gate, i turned to look behind me and saw the gates closing, one after the other by power of unseen hands, or simply through years of habit more accustomed were they to being closed than opened. Were these gates erected for the protection of this great establishment? For the security of these admirable administers of magical medicines? Were these prison bars meant to keep intruders out, or to keep it's inhabitants in?

With each turn of the wheels that brought me closer to the last gate, i tried harder to drown out the answer to my questions with whatever music i could conjour into my head. Approaching the third, i began to lose my grasp on reality. I imagined we were going in circles, driving through the same gates over and over again, endlessly circling. As though there were a certain number of rotations that must be completed before access to this unknown world was granted to us. I thought of the lock on the cabinet in my music master's study, the one with four lettered plates that had to be rotated a definite amount, and then alligned in a perfect secret order before it would open. I had once unlocked it.

I felt dizzy, and much too warm. The wind screamed around the carriage, the wheels rattled, and though the gate was close ahead, we seemed to be eternally racing towards it, making no progress. A bird, something like a Raven, but a great deal larger, soared overhead, and, emitting a strange, metallic growl into the blackening sky, circled above the ever-approaching gates. As it did so, i caught sight of the sharp spikes gleaming in the pumelling rain. Still galloping at full speed, i heard the muffled squeals of what sounded like a swarm of insects.

Looking out, i swore i saw, though i did not believe my eyes at the time, a great pack of rodents, perhaps a hundred, perhaps more, sleek furry bodies skimming the Earth leaping over each other, black eyes sparkling. A quivering mass, they swam over the cobblestones like one creature, Squid's ink, spilling into water, and infecting it with deep black in seconds. How they were able to keep up with the Horses mystified me, and when the swarm dispersed, and shot on ahead of us, they darted in and out beneath the wheels of the carriage and around the Horses hammering hooves, yet, were never trampled. I followed them with my eyes as they melded together again and slipped beneath the gate to the other side like a gush of dark water, the tide coming in.

It was all so ghastly, so intoxicating, my body convulsed in a quivering wave, somewhere between horror, and wild anticipation. And then, the final gate having slammed closed behind us, we were at the ultimate precipice at last. Three...Two...One...The doors began to open, there was an awful grinding of metal, a clashing of loosened chains. And with the skies seeming to come down around us, it appeared. The Asylum.

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306 306 [*] 4 o'Clock A Letter From A Friend (Poem) A Plea to the Dying (Poem) A Strange Device Absynthe Across The Sky Alas (The Knight) All My 'Lovin All My Lovin' All My Loving Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life Asleep Asleep (The Smiths cover) At What Point Does A Shakespeare Say (Poem) Be Silent, Be Still Best Safety Lies In Fear Blackbird Sonnets (Poem) Bohemian Rhapsody Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen cover) By The Sword By The Sword (Poem) Castle Down Chambermaid Chambermaid [Album Version] Close (Poem) Come Away Constant Crazy He Calls Me Dead is the New Alive Dead is the New Alive [*] Dead is the New Alive [Manipulator Mix] Delirium Didn't (Poem) Don't Blame Me Don't Blame Me Dreams Empty (Poem) Epilogue Epilogue: What If Ever Everybody's Girl (Poem) Faces Like Mine Fight Like A Girl Find Me A Man Funny How Things Change Funny How Things Change (Poem) Gaslight Gaslight Reprise Gentlemen Aren't Nice Gentlemen Aren't Nice Geordie Ghost (Poem) Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Asylum remix by Inkydus... Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Bad Girl remix by The F... Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper cover) Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Harpsichord Rendezvous) Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Teatime remix by EA) Girls! Girls! Girls! Gloomy Sunday God Help Me Goodbye (Poem) Goodnight, Sweet Ladies Gothic Lolita Gothic Lolita [*] Heard It All Hell is Empty Hollow Like My Soul Homesick Sonnets (Poem) How Strange How To Break A Heart (Poem) I Could Jump the Track (Poem) I Cried For You (Poem) I Didn't Mean You (Poem) I Don't Care Much I Don't Understand I Don't Care Much I Know It's Over (The Smiths cover) I Know It's Over I Know Where You Sleep I Know Where You Sleep [*] I Saved The World Today (The Eurythmics cover) I Want My Innocence Back I Want My Innocence Back I Want My Innocence Back [*] If (Poem) If I Burn If You Could Only Know (Poem) If You Feel Better If You Feel Better (Poem) In a World of My Own In Praise of Cyrano In Praise Of Cyrano (Poem) In Reality In The Lake Is It My Body Is It My Body (Alice Cooper cover) Juliet Jump The Track (Poem) Lady Anne Largo For Violin Let It Die Let The Record Show Liar Liar (Manic Depressive Mix by ASP) Liar (Medical Mix by Angelspit) Liar (Murder Mix by Brendon Small) Liar [*] Little Boy (Poem) Mad Girl Mad Girl (live) Manipulation Manipulation (Poem) Marry Me Medicate With Tea Misery Loves Company Misery Loves Company [*] Miss Lucy Had Some Leeches My Fairweather Friend Nearer Than You (Poem) Never Tasted Tears (Poem) Never You Mind O Mistress Mine On a Day... On Artistic Integrity (Poem) One Foot in Front of the Other Opheliac Opheliac [*] Organ Grinder Photographic Memory Poem: At What Point Does a Shakespeare Say Prick Goes The Scorpion's Tail Prologue Prologue: Across the Sky Rant 2 (Poem) Rant I (Poem) Rapunzel Rapunzel Sonnets (Poem) Remember Revelry Rose Red Russian Bride Save You Scavenger Second Hand Faith Shalott Shalott [*] Smirking Girl (Poem) So Many Fools (Poem) Space Space (Poem) Start Another Story Swallow Take The Pill Tea Will Rock You Thank God I'm Pretty Thank God I'm Pretty The Art Of Suicide The Ballad of Mushroom Down (Poem) The Day You Love (Poem) The Key The Muse (Poem) The Music I Heard Once (Poem) The One (Poem) The Star Spangled Banner Time For Tea Try My Best (Poem) Two Masks (Poem) Visions (Poem) We Want Them Young What If What Right Have I What Right Have I? (Poem) What Will I Remember? Willow Willow [Instrumental] With Every Passing Day (Upstairs, Downstairs cover... Woman (Poem) Words From "The Asylum" Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Flaming Lips cove...

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