Dennis Wheatley

Dennis Wheatley, 1975

Dennis Yates Wheatley (born January 8, 1897 in London , † November 10, 1977 ) was a British writer.

Life

Wheatley was a soldier in the First World War from 1914 , which he survived with serious injuries. Like his grandfather and father before him, he first worked as a wine merchant. He wrote his first short stories in the early 1920s . During the Great Depression its wine trade went bankrupt in 1,933th In the same year he wrote his first book, the novel "The Forbidden Territory". Until the beginning of the Second World War he wrote several thrillers .

After he had served in the military in the planning staff between 1941 and 1945, he continued his writing. During the 1960s he sold around a million copies of his novels a year. The books on black magic and satanism in particular sold well. Two books were made into films. He wrote an autobiography in the years before his death . He died on November 10, 1977 of liver disease. After Wheatley's death, sales fell sharply. Wheatley is still unpopular in German-speaking countries. Few of his books have been translated into German.

Works

• The Forbidden Territory (1933)
• Such Power is Dangerous (1933)
• Old Rowley (1933)
• Black August (1934)
• The Fabulous Valley (1934)
• The Devil Rides Out (1934) - (Eng. Servants of darkness , 1978)
• The Eunuch of Stamboul (1935)
• They Found Atlantis (1936)
• Murder Off Miami (1936) - (Eng. The Murderer of Miami , 1983)
• Contraband (1936)
• The Secret War (1937)
• Who Killed Robert Prentice? (1937) - (German The Murder in the Country House , 1984)
• Red Eagle (1937)
• Uncharted Seas (1938) (filmed in 1968 Beasts Lurk Before Caracas )
• The Malinsay Massacre (1938) - ( Eng . The secret of Malinsay Castle , 1985)
• The Golden Spaniard (1938)
• The Quest of Julian Day (1939)
• Herewith the Clues (1939)
• Sixty Days to Live (1939)
• The Scarlet Impostor (1940)
• Three Inquisitive People (1940)
• Faked Passports (1940)
• The Black Baroness (1940)
• Strange Conflict (1941)
• The Sword of Fate (1941)
• Total War (1941)
• V for Vengeance (1942)
• Mediterranean Nights (1942)
• Gunmen, Gallants and Ghosts (1943)
• The Man Who Missed the War (1945)
• Codeword Golden Fleece (1946)
• Come into My Parlor (1946)
• The Launching of Roger Brook (1947)
• The Shadow of Tyburn Tree (1948)
• The Haunting of Toby Jugg (1948)
• The Rising Storm (1949)
• The Seven Ages of Justerinis (1949)
• The Second Seal (1950)
• The Man Who Killed the King (1951)
• The Star of Ill Omen (1952)
• To the Devil - a Daughter (1953)
• Curtain of Fear (1953)
• The Island Where Time Stands Still (1954)
• The Dark Secret of Josephine (1955)
• The Ka of Gifford Hillary (1956)
• The Prisoner in the Mask (1957)
• Traitors' Gate (1958)
• Stranger than Fiction (1959)
• The Rape of Venice (1959)
• The Satanist (1960)
• Saturdays with Bricks (1961)
• Vendetta in Spain (1961)
• Mayhem in Greece (1962)
• The Sultan's Daughter (1963)
• Bill for the Use of a Body (1964)
• They Used Dark Forces (1964)
• Dangerous Inheritance (1965)
• The Eight Ages of Justerinis (1965)
• The Wanton Princess (1966)
• Unholy Crusade (1967)
• The White Witch of the South Seas (1968)
• Evil in a Mask (1969)
• Gateway to Hell (1970)
• The Ravishing of Lady Mary Ware (1971)
• The Devil and all His Works (1971)
• The Strange Story of Linda Lee (1972)
• The Irish Witch (1973)
• Desperate Measures (1974)
• The Young Man Said (1977)
• Officer and Temporary Gentleman (1978)
• Drink and Ink (1979)
• The Deception Planners (1980)

Editing

• The Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult

literature

• Phil Baker: The devil is a gentleman: the life and times of Dennis Wheatley , Sawtry: Dedalus, 2009, ISBN 1-903517-75-3