The Gray Nothingness - A Journey to Hell, Op 250

The mass murderer is hung. For a moment, his soul sees the attendants drag away his lifeless body. Then he feels himself being drawn downward with a magnetic force. There is feeling of foreboding as it grows warmer and warmer. With a sound of chimes, he arrives at a wrought iron gate that is glowing red. The doormen Hitler and Stalin, open the gate and bring him in forcibly. The murky, stale air envelopes him. All around him it is gray; sky and ground. Soon he hears chorus of succubus as they entertain the `host`, and there is the vision of Mephistopheles, himself (Low voices). As it becomes darker, there is the sound of the roaring flames, and chimes cry out 6-6-6. For a moment, the wail of lost souls is almost deafening, but then only one sound is heard ... slow laughing.