From the back cover description:
"James Champagne returns to the exotic and decadent world of Trinity in The Marble Index, the long-awaited sequel to the story he began in Illuminated Shadows. In this volume, rebel girl Karen Blaise and her best friend Poison Flower (the beautiful leader of the Pagans) set out in search of a legendary book known as the Marble Index, in the hope that it will tell them where to find the Griffin, a mythological beast that is the only being on the planet who can restore Karen's atrophied magical powers. Meanwhile the Shadows, an anarchistic terrorist secret society, begin a recruitment drive led by their leader, the charismatic woman known as Jerina Markay. Jerina and her friends will travel all around Trinity, from the depths of the Dwarf Kingdom to the heights of the Karnark Imperium, in the quest to gain new allies in their battle against the oppressive Kingdom. And in the steampunk metropolis of Zone, glam assassin Sypha Nadon plans to break out of jail to clear his name of a crime he didn't commit, and uncover the secrets of the mysterious Dr. Oment, the mastermind behind all of Trinity's recent woes. These various storylines eventually intertwine and build up to a shattering, apocalyptic conclusion, in which nothing will ever be the same again. All of this sets the stage for what will no doubt be a pulse-pounding final volume."
Main cast:
Adam Lambert: Sypha Nadon
Kristen Stewart: Karen Blaise
Melanie Laurent: Jerina Markay
Katy Perry: Poison Flower
Christina Hendricks: Marilyn Curtis
Stephen Rea: Cole Galdur
Christoph Waltz: Dr. Oment Nerrod
Ian McKellen: Arthur Trevador
Christian Bale: Steve Hunter
Jeff Bridges: Bemos Sherwin
Owen Wilson: Peter Miller
Michael Clarke Duncan: Kain Setter
Rosario Dawson: Pamelon Giry
Cillian Murphy: Egon Jordan
Rowan Atkinson: Catno Catoni (voice)
????: Sophia Thaig
Secondary cast:
Lady Gaga: Isabelle DeVando
John Turturro: Victor DaScar
John O'Hurley: Duane DaTes
Grant Morrison: Oswald Wirth
Ted Levine: Donald Dubwa
????: Eom Fairhaven
Blixa Bargeld: The Crimson King
Siouxsie Sioux: The Oracle
Brendan Gleeson: Dr. Vastarien
????: King Virago
Reginald VelJohnson: Harv Durrell
Rupert Boneham: King Ian Isrengard
Willem Dafoe: Skenlark (voice)
Stephen Russell: Syd Muller
????: Oscar Twist
Brent Corrigan: Paul
Sean Bean: Jarvis Sena
David Tibet: The Griffin (voice)
soundtrack:
Nico: Nibelungen (opening credits)
Nine Inch Nails: Happiness in Slavery
The Beatles: Nowhere Man
Nine Inch Nails: Ringfinger
Nico: Frozen Warnings
Switchblade Symphony: Doll House
Nine Inch Nails: Into the Void
Kate Bush: Wow
The Beatles: Come Together
My Chemical Romance: Planetary (Go!)
Pink Floyd: Us and Them
Nine Inch Nails: We're in This Together
Ke$ha: Cannibal
Siouxsie & the Banshees: Hybrid
No Doubt: Home Now
Genesis: The Last Domino
Lady Gaga: Teeth
Marilyn Manson: The Reflecting God
Nine Inch Nails: Ripe (With Decay) (end credits 1)
Coil: The First Five Minutes After Death (end credits 2)
Table of contents:
1. Marilyn Visits the Bonehoard
2. Karen and Ivy
3. A Conference of Shadows
4. Sypha in the Underworld
5. St. Bloch's Keys All Bloody
6. Ringfinger
7. The Hole in THings
8. Isrengard Redux
9. A Bond of Blood
10. Breakout at Blusterford Prison
11. En Route
12. Back From the Dead
13. Frozen Warnings
14. Conspiracy Theory
15. Amongst the Dwarves
16. Dr. Vastarien's Mannikin Masquerade
17. Dark Revelations
18. Into the Void
19. Wow
20. Strangers in the Night
21. Come Together
22. Us and Them
23. Kitty Empire
24. Hybrid
25. The Last Supper
26. Cross-Check
27. The Triumph of Death
influences:
Nico's The Marble Index album
The Thief computer game series
Neil Gaiman's Sandman graphic novels
Grant Morrison's Batman and Robin comic book
Bioware's Dragon Age: Origins computer game
The music of Nine Inch Nails, Switchblade Symphony, and Pink Floyd
Nine Inch Nails music videos
the short horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft and Thomas Ligotti
Edward Gorey's art
China Mieville's novel Perdido Street Station
the films of Jan Svankmajer and the Brothers Quay
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