Dennis Wheatley

[patkins]

The author Dennis Wheatley who passed away circa 1977 was a writer of fiction in the occult and satanism.
While I read most of his books at the time (some turned into movies-The Devil Rides Out) I am wondering would anyone on here know of a present day writer in the same category?

[Shady]

i dont pat, but can i just pay homage to ''the devil rides out''? what a book, what a film!

[RedSpider]

try this fella. i haven't read them so can't give a proper recommendation but it seems to be along the same sort of lines if not in the same style of wheatley. i'm much more of a hg wells man myself
[ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Graham-Masterton-Omnibus-Devils-Charnel/dp/0751536504]Graham Masterton Omnibus: "Tengu", "The Devils of D-Day", "The Mirror", "Charnel House": Amazon.co.uk: Graham Masterton: Books[/ame]

[thered]

i dont know pat i picked up my first book since junior school just to read on plane and sun lounger

Val McDermid - Trick of the Dark

val mcdermid very boring and totally overated the only thing that came through to me when reading the book is that the writer was a big butch lesbian and the ending was as predictable as the drums at the end of eastenders


is every film and book nowadays just regurgitated 5hite thats been done before


put me off reading now for another 25 years treasure island was much better

[Canker_Canison]

I've not read any of DW's work, but I do like to read.

My favorite author is Brian Lumley. I've re-read his books so many times yet still enjoy every chapter. Most of his books revolve around people gifted with ESP's & Vampires, although there are other themes, his Dream World & Titus Crow series of books were inspired by HP Lovecraft.

Just found out he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association last year.

The Necroscope & Vampire World series are my favorites. That includes the Lost Years (Necroscope - The lost years) & E-Branch books (these follow on from the Vampire World series)


Copied this list from brianlumley.com, although they do seen to of missed a book, A Covern of Vampires, a selection of short stories.

NOVELS

The House of Doors

• The House of Doors
• The House of Doors: Second Visit

The Psychomech Series

• Psychomech
• Psychosphere
• Psychamok

The Necroscope Series

• Necroscope
• Necroscope II : Vamphyri!
• Necroscope III : The Source
• Necroscope IV : Deadspeak
• Necroscope V : Deadspawn

The Vampire World Series

• (Books 6, 7, 8 of the Necroscope Series)
• Vampire World I : Blood Brothers
• Vampire World II : The Last Aerie
• Vampire World III : Bloodwars

The Lost Years Series

• (Books 9, 10 of the Necroscope Series)
• Necroscope : The Lost Years
• Necroscope : Resurgence The Lost Years : Volume II

The E-Branch Series

• (Books 11-13 of the Necroscope Series)
• E-Branch: Invaders
• E-Branch: Defilers
• E-Branch: Avengers

The Dreamlands Series

• Hero of Dreams
• The Ship of Dreams
• Mad Moon of Dreams
• Iced on Aran

The Primal Land Series

• The House of Cthulhu and Others (Ganley Edition, Collection, Out of Print)
• The Compleat Khash: Never A Backward Glance Volume One (Ganley Edition, Collection)
• The Compleat Khash: Sorcery in Shad (Ganley Edition)

Titus Crow

• The Burrowers Beneath
• The Transition of Titus Crow
• The Clock of Dreams
• Spawn of the Winds
• In the Moons of Borea
• Elysia

OTHER NOVELS

• Beneath the Moors
• Khai of Ancient Khem
• Demogorgon

COLLECTIONS

• The Caller of the Black (out of print)
• The Horror at Oakdeene (out of print)
• Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi
• Return of the Deep Ones
• Dagon's Bell and Other Discords
• The Second Wish and Other Exhalations
• Ghoul Warning and Other Omens (poetry) (out of print)
• Ghoul Warning and Other Omens... and Other Omens (poetry) (Ganley Edition)
• The Compleat Crow
• The Last Rite
• In his Own Write: Brian Lumley: Necroscribe
• [ame="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0940884917/anofficibrianlum"]Ghor, Kin-Slayer: The Saga of Genseric's Fifth-Born Son[/ame] (collaboration)
• [ame="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0787117234/anofficibrianlum"]The Greatest Horror Stories of the 20th Century[/ame] -Brian's story in this collaboration is "The Viaduct" Anthology Editor Martin Greenberg is the editor of this Dove Audio Book.

[patkins]

try this fella. i haven't read them so can't give a proper recommendation but it seems to be along the same sort of lines if not in the same style of wheatley. i'm much more of a hg wells man myself
Graham Masterton Omnibus: "Tengu", "The Devils of D-Day", "The Mirror", "Charnel House": Amazon.co.uk: Graham Masterton: Books

Thanks Red. I'll do some searching on him.
I'm going to state the obvious but it is not for me but a friend who is now in a nursing home. I've just tracked down and ordered a Wheatley collection through Easons for him.
While I enjoyed Wheatley and similar years ago I'm not much into reading myself these days but I know of his love for this type of fiction but am completely at a loss as to who would be Wheatleys successor. Thanks. Pat.

[patkins]

i dont pat, but can i just pay homage to ''the devil rides out''? what a book, what a film!

Shady, a film was also made from "To the Devil a Daughter" by Wheatley which, if memory serves me well, starred Richard Widmark
and might be worth a look.

Thanks also to the red and canker.

[Shady]

downloading now pat cheers

[kianniamh]

Phil Rickman could be worth a look.

[patkins]

Phil Rickman could be worth a look.

Thanks kianniamh, will give him a googling tomorrow.

[Montebox]

Thanks kianniamh, will give him a googling tomorrow.

I'm also a big fan of Mr Wheatley. My brother had the complete collection of books in red leather bind. I've read so many of his titles, the best being The Devil Rides Out. I've read it several times and it will always be a personal favourite.

I too was looking for an alternative writer that had the same knowledge and writing style of Mr Wheatley but I never found him, perhaps he's out there?

So far I've managed to find 24 ebooks for Dennis Wheatley. I had to convert them from various formats to mobi so I can read them on my kindle.

[Fatkev48]

Dennis Wheatley

Montebank,
What 24 ebooks have you located. I can only find 12.

Fatkev48

[Meat-Head]

Montebank,
What 24 ebooks have you located. I can only find 12.

Fatkev48

Well if the bloke is brown bread - are you liky to find the other 12?

This is going to end up like the secret not from 'one of our dinasaurs is missing'

[hgowerj]

Dennis Wheatley

I'm also a big fan of Mr Wheatley. My brother had the complete collection of books in red leather bind. I've read so many of his titles, the best being The Devil Rides Out. I've read it several times and it will always be a personal favourite.

I too was looking for an alternative writer that had the same knowledge and writing style of Mr Wheatley but I never found him, perhaps he's out there?

So far I've managed to find 24 ebooks for Dennis Wheatley. I had to convert them from various formats to mobi so I can read them on my kindle.

Hi

Can you say where you found these versions and how you converted them to kindle?

I'm a 62 year old novice who has a kindle and would love to read these books once more.

[patkins]

Hello hgowerj and welcome to DK. Hope you find your Wheatley ebooks but in the meantime have a look around the forums and enjoy your stay here.