Fields of the Nephilim's music is full of references to literature, myth and film. What follows is a list of reading and viewing material, recommended by listmembers, that may broaden fans' understanding of the music.

Biblical Texts describing the Nephilim

The Bible
The Book of Enoch
The Apocrypha, including the Book of Jubilees
The Dead Sea Scrolls

"From the Ashes of Angels: The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race"
by Andrew Collins
(also recommended: "Gods of Eden," "Gateway to Atlantis," and "21st Century Grail")

"A Dictionary of Angels: Including the Fallen Angels"
by Gustav Davidson

"Sins of the Angels"
by St. Thomas Aquinas
(out of print; try at http://www.bookfinder.com)

"Angels: An Endangered Species"
by Malcolm Godwin

"The Enochian Magick of Dr John Dee"
by Geoffrey James Editor, John Dee

"The Complete Enochian Dictionary: A Dictionary of the Angelic Language As Revealed to Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley"
by Donald C. Laycock

"The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character"
by Samuel Noah Kramer

"History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine 'Firsts' in Recorded History"
by Samuel Noah Kramer

"Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth, Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer"
by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer

"Sumerian Mythology"
by Samuel Noah Kramer

"The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian"
by Andrew George

"Book of the Law" (aka Liber AL)
"Book of Lies"
"Magic in Theory and Practice"
"The Vision & the Voice"
"The Moonchild"

"The Book of Pleasure"
by Austin Osman Spare
(out of print; try at http://www.bookfinder.com)

"Ethos"
by Austin Osman Spare
(out of print; try at http://www.bookfinder.com)

"The Focus of Life"
by Austin Osman Spare
(out of print; try at http://www.bookfinder.com)

"From the Inferno to Zos II: The Secret Language of Austin Osman Spare"
by O. Spare

"Zos Speaks!: Encounters With Austin Osman Spare"
by Kenneth Grant

"Liber Null & Psychonaut"
by Peter Carroll

"Liber Kaos"
by Peter Carroll

"Condensed Chaos: an Introduction to Chaos Magic"
by Phil Hine

"The Fields of the Nephilim Collector's Guide" by Ande Tucker

"A Field Guide to Demons, Faeries, Fallen Angels, and Other Subersive Spirits"
by Carol and Dinah Mack

"The Golden Bough"
by James George Frazer


"Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge"
by Carlos Castaneda


"A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan"
by Carlos Castaneda


"Magic, Supernaturalism, and Religion"
by Kurt Seligmann
(out of print; try at http://www.bookfinder.com)

"1984"
by George Orwell

"Necronomicon"
"History of the Necronomicon"
"Tales of the Cthulu Mythos"
"The Dunwich Horror and Others"
"Shadow over Innsmouth"
"At the Mountains of Madness"
"The Dream Quest of the Unknown Kadath"
"Doom that Came to Sarnath"

(her grigori series is based in part on Collins' work)

"Stalking Tender Prey" (book one of the Grigori Trilogy)
"Scenting Hallowed Blood" (book two of the Grigori Trilogy)
"Stealing Sacred Fire" (book three of the Grigori Trilogy)

"Burying the Shadow"
"Hermetech"
(features artwork by Carl McCoy's Sheer Faith)

"The Prophecy I, "The Prophecy II"
by Gregory Widen
(impressive vision of a second Angelic rebellion. The second movie, though substandard, has greater relevance to Enochian myth.)

"Dust Devil"
by Nephilim video director Richard Stanley

"Hardware"
by Nephilim video director Richard Stanley; features Carl McCoy

"Once Upon a Time in the West"
by Sergio Leone
(sampled for and inspired much of the imagery of "Dawnrazor")

"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
by Sergio Leone
(sampled for "Preacher Man")

"A Fistful of Dollars"
by Sergio Leone
(sampled for "Dawnrazor")

"The Name of the Rose"
by Jean-Jacques Annaud
(sampled at various points on "The Nephilim")

"Evil Dead"
by Sam Raimi
(sampled for "Vet for the Insane")

"Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
by Tobe Hooper
(sampled for "The Sequel")

"The Omen"
by Richard Donner
(sampled for "Love Under Will")

"The Entity"
by Sidney J. Furie
(inspired the song "Power")

"The Reflecting Skin"
by Philip Ridley
(sampled for "Shine")

"Sleepstalker"
by Turi Meyer
(sampled for "Shine")