From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guant namo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares.
-- The New York Times Book Review Three thousand years of visions of Hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation.
Along the way, you'll take a ferry ride with Aeneas to Had.