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Wheatley was born at 10, Raleigh Gardens, Brixton Hill, London, the eldest of three children--and only son--of Albert David Wheatley (died 1927) and Florence Elizabeth Harriet (1874-1955), daughter of ironmaster William Yates Baker, of Aspen House, 219, Brixton Hill.
The Devil Rides Out is a 1934 novel by Dennis Wheatley telling a disturbing story of black magic and the occult. [1] The four main characters, the Duke de Richleau , Rex van Ryn, Simon Aron and Richard Eaton, appear in a series of novels by Wheatley.
The Satanist is a black magic/horror novel by Dennis Wheatley. Published in 1960, it is characterized by an anti-communist spy theme. [ 1 ] The novel was one of the popular novels of the 1960s, popularizing the tabloid notion of a black mass .
The Duke De Richleau is a fictional character created by Dennis Wheatley who appeared in 11 novels published between 1933 and 1970.. Dennis Wheatley originally created the character for a murder mystery Three Inquisitive People, written and set in 1931 but which was not published until 1939. [1]
Black August is an adventure novel by the British writer Dennis Wheatley. First published in 1934, it is set in about 1960, when an economic and political crisis causes a collapse of civilization. It was the first (in order of publication) of Dennis Wheatley's novels to feature the character Gregory Sallust.
It was the second of Wheatley's "black magic" novels to be filmed by Hammer, following The Devil Rides Out, released in 1968. The project had originally been intended to be an episode of a television series based on Wheatley's novels, titled The Devil and all His Works . [ 7 ]
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A disappointingly routine version of Dennis Wheatley's black magic thriller. The initial manifestation of evil, a smiling coloured gentleman in a red nappy, is very tame fare and easily disposed of; later black powers, ranging from the inevitable giant spider to a Thing in the semblance of an innocent girl ...
Roger Brook is a fictional secret agent and gallant of the Napoleonic Wars who is later identified as the Chevalier de Breuc, created by Dennis Wheatley in 1947. His series covers events from a dozen years before the French Revolution to the fall of Napoleon. The series is written from Brook's perspective, who is an aide-de-camp to Napoleon ...