Created by Fred Johansen
Something fun to do when I find the time for it: An Iron Maiden reading challenge.
Here are some possible literary inspirations for Iron Maiden songs, taken from the Wikipedia pages for the various albums. Plus 1+ reference works.
(I've skipped the movie influences, because there's a lot of those, too.)
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
4 stars
The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a novel by French author Gaston Leroux. It was …
The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales (C. Auguste Dupin, #1-3) by Edgar Allan Poe
5 stars
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. …
The Midwich Cuckoos (S.F. Masterworks) [Hardcover] [Sep 08, 2016] John Wyndham (author) by Howard Hughes
3 stars
In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day …
Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune Chronicles, #1)
4 stars
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family …
Selected poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson (Dover thrift editions)
A brief profile of the nineteenth century English poet, Alfred Tennyson, accompanies selections from some of his best known works.
The rime of the ancient mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4 stars
A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding. The mariner then relates to the man all the …
Stranger in a strange land by Robert A. Heinlein
4 stars
Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the …
Seventh Son (Tales of Alvin Maker, Vol. I) by Orson Scott Card
In an alternate version of frontier America, young Alvin is the seventh son of a seventh son, and such a …
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