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Post by scalydemon on May 17, 2017 19:19:40 GMT -6
I know I know I am slow to catch on and all that, but have never read anything by him and was thinking of checking something out for a try. Anyone read much of him? Did you like it? Any thoughts on a good place to start or steer towards? Seems like an interesting guy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_WheatleyI have seen the hammer film Devil Rides Out but that's about it
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Post by Vile Traveller on May 19, 2017 4:11:02 GMT -6
Kinky supernatural is what I remember about it. Astral travel. Devil worshippers. Sex. That's what I remember from reading a few of his books in my youth. Quite gameable now that you mention him.
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Post by stevemitchell on May 19, 2017 12:15:13 GMT -6
Hammer had another film based on a Wheatley novel, To the Devil a Daughter. The Devil Rides Out was better, though.
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Post by scalydemon on May 19, 2017 21:04:29 GMT -6
The thing that peaked my interest about reading him was this passage: According to AllMusic's Steve Huey, Black Sabbath marks "the birth of heavy metal as we now know it".[7] In his opinion, the album "transcends its clear roots in blues-rock and psychedelia to become something more".[7] He ascribes its "sonic ugliness" as a reflection of "the bleak industrial nightmare" of the group's hometown, Birmingham, England.[7] Huey notes the first side's allusions to themes characteristic of heavy metal, including evil, paganism, and the occult, "as filtered through horror films and the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, and Dennis Wheatley."[7] He characterises side two as "given over to loose blues-rock jamming learned through" the English rock band Cream.[7] Which is taken from this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sabbath_(album)
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Post by Otto Harkaman on Jun 12, 2017 16:04:07 GMT -6
I've seen The Devil Rides Out. I have a collection of DW's books in epub format, been meaning to read them.
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