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Summary: Wheatley's most famous, but hardly his finest..
Review: The Devil Rides Out is perhaps best known for its late 1960s screen adaptation starring Christopher Lee. It's because of this that folks seem to recall Dennis Wheatley as the guy who wrote The Devil Rides Out. For a man who has pumped out more than sixty novels in his life, this is a rather sad legacy.The Devil Rides out is follows roughly the same formula as other Dennis Wheatley's "Black Magic" novels. Devil worshippers recruit unsuspecting nice guys into their satanic rituals, with some amateur sleuths chasing down these villians before all hell breaks loose (..pun intended). 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. So does The Devil Ride Out offer reading pleasure? Well, firstly the novel was written in the 1930s but feels much older; it evokes images of mothballs, gaslight, and worn cardigans. Compared to Wheatley's The Satanist, written some 25 years later, it seems very archaic indeed. Secondly, the story itself is not very enthralling. Wheatley is known as a storyteller, but not as a great writer of literature. So The Devil Rides Out suffers from both poor writing and a lame story. At least The Satanist has a much better story; I think to a degree Wheatley got better with age and experience. Bottom line: a musty, dusty piece of gothic nonsense. Wheatley has written better 'black magic' novels; he was sort of a Stephen King back some 30+ years ago. It's best to hunt down those novels (which are, sadly, out of print).
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Summary: No Book ever made me go and sit outside. Unbeleivably Scary!
Review: The only book that made me re-evaluate my beliefs about what is real and what is fiction. Suspense is the norm here and it takes you for a ride that is relentless , forbiding and at the same time you cannot stop scaring yourself
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Summary: Race Against Time
Review: The race through Salisbury Plain was breathtaking. The best I have read - beats all the wannabes which came later.
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Summary: A warning against the dangers of Satanisim
Review: This book is a warning against the dangers of Satanisim , but it seems almost like a "how to" book. It explores the facets of the darkness inside all , the things that don't exist if we dont reveal them. Its tremendously interesting, but not an easy read to interpret.
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Summary: A well-written, scary tale with excellent factual bases.
Review: This was the first Dennis Wheatley book I ever read. I now have the full collection. The premise of the story is one of fantasy, however, as the plot unfolds, Wheatley sprinkles in liberal amounts of facts pertaining to the occult, numerism,Devil-worshpping and just plain history to make it credible. I defy anyone who gets to the chapter 'Within the Pentacle' to be able to put it down until at least the chapter after that! Never have I been so scared while reading a book. I have read most of the more contemporay 'horror' writer's offerings, but they pale when compared to this man, who was the master of his craft. If I have one criticism, it's the rather 'snobbish' english, but allow for the fact that the book was written in the days when the upper-class in Britain actually DID talk like that!
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Summary: Best read on a dark stormy night
Review: Unputdownable supernatural thriller which grips from the first page. Rex and de Richleau struggle to rescue friend Simon from the clutches of satanist Mocata. Mocata doesn't give up easily ("I won't be back. But something will"). Great characters and lots of convincing detail make it a riveting read.
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