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  Harry Price & Dennis Wheatley
Dennis Wheatley's new book was published on 12th December 1934 and his then unique synthesis of occultism, romance and heroic adventure quickly established itself as a classic and was reprinted many times down through the years, being eventually filmed by Hammer in 1968 with Christopher Lee playing the part of the Duc de Richleau.
Dennis Wheatley's final novel, the closing entry to his Roger Brook series titled Desperate Measures appeared in August 1974 after which he produced a three volume set of autobiography although he did not live to see the third and final entry published.
Wheatley was in the habit of annotating the books in his library which he used for research when writing his novels and he evidently used Tabori's biography in such a way.
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 Dennis Wheatley )overview) Summary
Dennis Wheatley, the Stephen King of the 1950’s was probably single handedly responsible for its revival, and for the renewal of interest in paganism and witchcraft that his novels tell of.
Wheatley’s literary output was prolific; he wrote some excellent history material, many historical novels, and yet it was his horror stories that made him famous.
Wheatley’s attitude was one of preaching the dangers of occultism.
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 Dennis Wheatley - SCIFIPEDIA
Dennis Wheatley (Dennis Yeats Wheatley) (January 8, 1897 – November 10, 1977) is rarely remembered today and most of his titles have disappeared from bookstores and are out of print from publishers.
In debt and nearly bankrupt, Wheatley left four years later to pursue a writing career and his first published novel, The Forbidden Territory (1933), was an adventure set in Soviet Russia that introduced “Those Modern Musketeers”, the Duke du Richleau, Rex Van Ryn, Simon Aron and Richard Eaton.
Wheatley’s books became popular amongst adolescent readers because of their somewhat titillating “adult” content, and there was an inherent “British colonialism” quality about his fiction.
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 Review: Dennis Wheatley by Craig Cabell | Books | EducationGuardian.co.uk
Caught between the heel of the Nazi jackboot and the tide of the red menace, the novels were paranoid, mythical and racy, mixing the occult, anti-revolutionary politics and espionage.
Dennis Wheatley believed communism was the work of the devil.
Wheatley's clandestine war, the subject of this book, was less romantic and barely urgent.
education.guardian.co.uk /higher/books/story/0,,1722708,00.html   (433 words)

  
 Dennis Wheatley Summary
Prolific and imaginative if also occasionally repetitive and predictable, Dennis Wheatley is noteworthy in the history of dark fantasy for his treatments of sorcery and fl magic and for his distinctive combinations of literary types, resulting in supe...
Dennis Wheatley, who also wrote history and political analysis, was called "Prince of Thriller Writers" by a critic in the Times Literary Supplement (8 June 1940), and this motto was emblazoned on the spines of the collected edition of his works.
Dennis Yates Wheatley(8 January 1897 – 10 November 1977) was a British writer born in London.
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 Nina Miranda and Dennis Wheatley come together as Shrift
Wheatley is best known for his work with Atlas, a British electro band with a history of taking existing elements (Brazilian singers, string quartets, Randy Newman's "Baltimore") and whipping them up into delectably, danceably new ethno-electro mixtures.
Dennis Wheatley: I think the thing that Nina and I have in common is we try to create another place, in a way.
Dennis had stuff I woud never listen to and some of it I was like 'I don't like it'.
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 Dennis Wheatley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dennis Yates Wheatley (8 January 1897 10 November 1977) was a British writer born in London.
Dennis Yates(or Yeats) Wheatley was born in South London on 8 January 1897 to Albert David and Florence Elizabeth Harriet Wheatley (née Baker).
Fifty-two of Wheatley's novels were published in a set by Heron Books.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dennis_Wheatley   (966 words)

  
 Crime Dossiers of Dennis Wheatley and J G Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The four crime dossiers devised by Dennis Wheatley and J.G. Links in the 1930s were a completely original novelty and, at least initially, immensely popular both in Britain and around the world.
Reg Gadney, in his article 'The Murder Dossiers of Dennis Wheatley and J.G. Links' that appeared in the London Magazine in March 1969, drew parallels between the avant-garde nature of the dossiers and Marcel Duchamp's 'Readymades'.
In the event, the response of the public and press was positive and Wheatley states in the third volume of his autobiography, 'Drink and Ink', that 120,000 copies were sold in six months.
www.denniswheatley.info /crimedossiers.htm   (2190 words)

  
 The Weird Review: Dennis Wheatley
Dennis Wheatley wrote some of the best & some of the lamest weird novels of his era, a long writing career beginning in 1933 & lasting until his death in 1977.
Wheatley was a sadist & inserts sadism into the majority of his books, especially in the Gregory Sallust adventures.
Wheatley dashed these collections together mainly from vagrant writings to meet contracted deadlines at a time when he was too busy with war service to compose novels.
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 Amazon.com: The Devil Rides Out: Books: Dennis Wheatley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Wheatley obviously did a prodigious amount of background research before the writing of this, his first of an eventual nine novels dealing with fl magic and the supernatural.
Dennis Wheatley's fabulous supernatural thriller 'The Devil Rides Out' on its publication in 1934 was hailed as the best thing of it's kind since Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' and the comparison is entirely justified.
Dennis Wheatley of course can't resist offering mini-lectures on the history of the occult too, proving that he really was an authority on the matter.
www.amazon.com /Devil-Rides-Out-Dennis-Wheatley/dp/0749324910   (1836 words)

  
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 Biographical and bibliographical note on Dennis Wheatley
His schooling was at Dulwich College, from which he was expelled and, as it was decided that what the young Wheatley needed was discipline, as a cadet at HMS Worcester, a Napoleonic three decker training ship moored in the Thames, a training college for potential merchant navy officers.
Wheatley married his first wife in 1922 and although his income was supplemented by his wife their extravagant lifestyle led to debts which had to be settled by his father.
With the coming of WW2, already a successful novelist, Wheatley submitted a number of papers to the Joint Planning Staff of the war cabinet (an edited version of one, Total War, was published).
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 Amazon.com: Strange Conflict: Books: Dennis Wheatley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Wheatley is effective in setting the stakes as extending beyond mere life and death, and wastes no opportunity to tell readers of the wanton cruelty of which the Nazis and their allies were capable, cruelty going beyond this existence.
He is able to sustain tension and thrills through real affection for the characters and their plight, and through the capacity for sadism of the villain, who is revealed late in the book, although one might guess earlier.
It's not that Wheatley is pro-Satan or anything; his heroes are on the side of the angels, so to speak.
www.amazon.com /Strange-Conflict-Dennis-Wheatley/dp/0749324864   (1080 words)

  
 BBC - BBC Four Documentaries - Dennis Wheatley
Dennis Wheatley was labelled the prince of thriller writers by the critics, but less than 30 years after he died, he is largely neglected.
At the heart of the programme, we reveal an extraordinary letter written by him in the winter of 1947, consigned to a time capsule and addressed to "Posterity".
The programme includes extensive unseen private archive and contributions from Wheatley's son Anthony.
www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/documentaries/features/dennis-wheatley.shtml   (257 words)

  
 Porter's Bookstore - Dennis Wheatley
The Launching Of Roger Brook is the first in Wheatley's historical series where the secret agent Roger Brook appears and is set in the England of George III and the France of Marie Antoinette.
Wheatley learned this when he was a member of the Joint Planning Staff of the War Cabinet during World War II.
On the rear cover of several of these books is a photograph of the elderly Dennis Wheatley, sitting at his library desk in a blue dinner jacket, glass of wine next to him, writing his latest thriller.
www.portersbookstore.com /Wheatley.html   (394 words)

  
 The Satanist Review - Dennis Wheatley
Dennis Wheatley’s tale of a satanic plot takes place within a Cold War framework: A nuclear warhead is used to menace the world with total destruction.
This novel is one of several by this author that involve satanism and anticommunist sentiments, and it is perhaps his most successful effort in crossing genre boundaries.
As the novel opens, Colonel C. Verney, Special Branch (a character from Wheatley’s 1953 To the Devil— A Daughter), is studying a photograph of one of his agents, Teddy Morden, found in an alley with his throat slit.
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 book programme: dennis wheatley - tv review for zone-sf.com
As a human being, Dennis Wheatley was a fake.
Dennis Wheatley (8th January 1897 - 10th November 1977) was born in suburban Streatham, his father a remote authoritarian figure.
Yet Wheatley remains a deeply unpleasant snob, a rascally social-climbing popinjay, a nouveau riche fantasist who began to believe his own fantasies - not the harmless fl magic ones, but the far more dangerously offensive class superiority ones.
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 Wheatley, Dennis in general - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
Dennis Wheatley was a prolific writer whose work I thought was boring, especially his historical fiction books.
So much research was put into the subject of the occult, that although Wheatley's characters were, in my opinion, wooden, the stories kept me spellbound and I couldn't put the books down.
Wheatley excelled when it came to writing about the Occult.
www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/wheatley-dennis-in-general   (228 words)

  
 Dennis Wheatley: A Letter To Posterity :: lashtal.com :: Thelemic News and Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Dennis Wheatley: A Letter To Posterity :: lashtal.com :: Thelemic News and Culture
A BBC Four television documentary broadcast today describes a letter written and hidden for posterity in November 1947 by novelist Dennis Wheatley.
Crowley's influence on Wheatley is apparent and one can infer that Wheatley was more impressed by Thelema than he cared to admit in interviews.
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 Dennis Wheatley - Anchor Bay Entertainment UK
I have recently been thoroughly enjoying the novels of the late Dennis Wheatley.
To the uninitiated Wheatley was more or less a British answer to Stephen King back in the sixties and seventies, today he is more or less forgotten due to his works outdated stance on race, politics, etc.
It appears that outside of the books I already own most of Wheatley's output is hackneyed WWII adventure stories and political intrigue, doubt they would interest me very much.
www.anchorbay.co.uk /forum/showthread.php?t=9959   (262 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Ka of Gifford Hillary: Books: Dennis Wheatley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
But this can also be said of Dennis Wheatley's other occult novels.
But Wheatley was like a Stephen King from our father's (or grandfather's) generation, so his works deserve some respect.
This even includes 'The Ka of Gifford Hillary', a quirky fable which is only 'average Wheatley' (best left to Wheatley fans only).
www.amazon.ca /Ka-Gifford-Hillary-Dennis-Wheatley/dp/0749306726   (324 words)

  
 Dennis Wheatley Bibliography of First Editions at Bookseller World
Dennis Wheatley Bibliography of First Editions at Bookseller World
Dennis Wheatley, born London 8th January 1897 and died 1977, was one of Britian's most popular authors and a huge international bestseller, with worldwide sales approaching 50 million copies.
Wheatley served in the first World War but was invalided out after being gassed on the Western Front in 1919.
www.booksellerworld.com /dennis-wheatley.htm   (187 words)

  
 Wheatley Summaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
ABSTRACT – DENNIS WHEATLEY - Understandably, after two world wars had shown us all too many real life horrors, the genre of horror story fiction was i...
This paper introduces us to the author Phillis Wheatley and one of her poems that was written about the lives of slaves in the United States.
THELMA WHEATLEY, has written a powerful book about raising her autistic son, Julian, who is now 27.
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 Dennis Wheatley - They Found Atlantis - First Edition Book
Dennis Wheatley - They Found Atlantis - First Edition Book
The information below provides all you need to identify a 1st edition or first printing.
A few reached Egypt and started that maybe; another lot struck northern Palestine and got going in Chaldea; a single man perhaps fetched up on the coast of Mexico and another in Brazil.
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 Wheatley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wheatley is a surname, and may refer to:
As a place name Wheatley may refer to the following places:
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
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 Amazon.ca: The Devil Rides Out: Books: Dennis Wheatley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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 DENNIS WHEATLEY : Churchill's Storyteller - Price Comparison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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 Textbooks by Dennis Wheatley - Direct Textbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
To the Devil, a daughter (A Black magic story) by Dennis Wheatley
Herewith the Clues (A Murder Mystery) by Dennis Wheatley
Malinsay Massacre (A Murder Mystery) by Dennis Wheatley
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