<B>Close your eyes and picture -- just for a moment -- hell. Fire? Demons? Eternal torment?</B> <BR> Well, yes -- that's the place, in one very hot nutshell. But that's not all there is to the forbidding world beneath us. For a few millennia now, we mortals have imagined and reimagined hell in countless ways: as a realm of damnation, as an inspiration for highest art, as a setting for the lowest of lowbrow comedy. One might conclude that for all our good intentions to enter para- dise, we can't seem to get enough vivid details of its counterpart, hell. <BR> Provocative, colorful, and damned entertaining, <I>Go to Hell</I> takes readers on a tour of the underworld that is both darkly comical and seriously informative. From the frozen hell of the Vikings to the sun-drenched Cayman Islands' town of Hell (where tourists line up to have their postcards aptly postmarked), from Dante's circles of hell to <I>Buffy the Vampire Slayer's</I> Hellmouth, <I>Go to Hell</I> embraces our evolving relationship with the sinner's final destination, revealing how we truly think of ourselves in <I>this</I> world. <BR><BR> <B>What's down below?</B> <BR> Meet HEL, the hideous, half-rotting goddess of the Viking underworld. <BR> Beware the Egyptians' AM-MUT, an unsightly mix of lion, crocodile, and hippo parts, and insatiably hungry for wicked souls. <BR> Visit JIGOKU, a Buddhist realm of eight fiery hells and eight icy hells: an all-you-can-suffer hot-and-cold buffet. <BR> Step into the INFERNO for a tour of Dante's nine circles of the damned...