Wilhelm Reich in Hell
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Wilhelm Reich in Hell is a play and book written by author Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson , known to friends as "Bob", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic...

, and published in 1987. The book is one of Wilson's 35 volumes, and the play has been staged several times, with productions in Dublin, Los Angeles
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, and San Francisco. The many factual and fictional characters in the play include Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
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, Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam
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, and Dr. Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry...

 himself.

The book contains two forewords - one by Chistopher S. Hyatt, the other by Donald Holmes
Donald Holmes
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