This is my third post on the black magic novels of Dennis Wheatley. Strange Conflict was Wheatley's second de Richleau story of the occult, following The Devil Rides Out after six years. Written and set during World War II, it has a preposterous plot which involves the Nazis in black magic and has de Richleau …
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The Satanist
by Dennis Wheatley This is my second post on the recently-reissued novels of Dennis Wheatley. For me, The Satanist is by a margin Wheatley's best black magic story. As well as being an edge-of-the-seat adventure, it utilises a theme that has always had a fascination for me - the sometimes uncanny relationship between identical twins. …
The Devil Rides Out . . . Again
In 2013, Bloomsbury Publishers announced that they intended to reissue the novels of Dennis Wheatley as e-books. As an avid reader of Wheatley's stories - many years ago! - I was excited at the prospect of their being on the market again, and indeed at possibly seeing some of them again in print. Out …
