Dennis Wheatley
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Dennis Yates Wheatley was an English writer whose prolific output of thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930s through to the 1960s.
Portrait by Allan Warren, 1975
Wheatley's grave in Brookwood Cemetery
The Devil Rides Out
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The Devil Rides Out is a 1934 horror novel by Dennis Wheatley, telling a disturbing story of black magic and the occult. The four main characters, the Duke de Richleau, Rex van Ryn, Simon Aron and Ric
Dennis Wheatley
…later expelled after a few "unhappy years" studying at Dulwich College for allegedly forming a "secret society", as he mentions in his introduction to The Devil Rides Out. Soon after his expulsion, Wheatley became a British Merchant Navy officer cadet on the training ship HMS Worcester. Wheatley was commissioned as a 2nd…
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