by Glen Duncan
Acknowledgements
Several books were useful in the writing of this one, most too venerable (and too long out of copyright) to require a note. Of special help, however, was Gustav Davidson’s A Dictionary of Angels (The Free Press, New York, 1971), an engaging and comprehensive guide through the labyrinth of angelic nomenclature.
I’m indebted to Montague Summers’s The History of Witchcraft and Demonology (Castle Books edition, Secaucus, NJ, 1992 – originally published by Kegan Paul, London, 1926) for the story of Lucifer’s ‘Crucifixion sketch’. Names, dates and places are my own invention.
Ron Ridenhour’s connection to both the My Lai massacre and the Milgram obedience tests is noted in Jonathan Glover’s book Humanity, A Moral History of the Twentieth Century (Jonathan Cape, London, 1999). The author cites an internet communication from Gordon Bear (1998) as his own source.
Himmler’s speech in this book is a fusion of two separate originals, both of which can be found in Heinrich Himmler by Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel (Heinemann, London, 1965).
Grateful acknowledgement is given for the publishers’ permission to reproduce copyright material from:
‘Fern Hill’ by Dylan Thomas, from The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas (JM Dent, Everyman edition, London, 1989).
‘The Novelist’ by WH Auden, from Collected Shorter Poems 1927–57 (Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1984).
‘The Ninth Elegy’ by Rainer Maria Rilke, from Duino Elegies, translated by Stephen Cohn (Carcanet Press Ltd, Manchester, 1989).
Biblical quotations are from the OUP’s King James Version With Apocrypha (Oxford World’s Classics paperback, Oxford, 1998).
My thanks go to Stephen Coates (a.k.a. The Clerkenwell Kid, a.k.a. [the real] Tuesday Weld) for musical companionship (see the soundtrack to I, Lucifer) and to Jonny Geller at Curtis Brown for his sterling and inimitable representation.
Finally, enormous gratitude to Ben Ball at Scribner, for tact, acts of faith, and editorial acumen beyond compare.
The soundtrack to I, Lucifer presented by (the real) Tuesday Weld is available on Dreamy Records (cat REM 666).
Visit www.dreamyrecords.com or www.tuesdayweld.com for details.