This appealed to his legions of readers who were in that middle ground of fiction, not looking for pure fantasy nor dry fact, but something exciting, extraordinary, possible and even probable. I think it was this element that added the important plausibility to his writing. His involvement informed his writing and his stories, even those based on historical events, held a notable veracity that only the life-experienced novelist can obtain. Dennis saw action both at the Front, in the First World War, and behind a desk in the Second. However, only a handful can claim to have been involved in actual daring-do. There is something of the fantasist in every storyteller, and most novelists writing thrillers see themselves in their heroes. Each held court in their own way but Dennis was the famous one with the famous friends and the famous stories. Nancy’s visits would fill the house with laughter and mischievous gossip, while Dennis and his second wife Joan would descend like minor royalty, all children expected to behave.
Thinking about it now, I suspect that I was drawn to a young Ginny Hewett, a similarly bubbly character, and now my wife of 27 years, because she resembled Nancy in many ways.Īs grandparents, Dennis and Nancy were very different. Nancy was the youngest in a large family of ten Robinson children and she had a wonderful zest for life and a gaiety about her that I much admired as a boy brought up in the dull Seventies.
He only had one child, my father Anthony, from his first marriage to Nancy Robinson. Read moreĭennis Wheatley was my grandfather. Overall, I think this was a good Dennis Wheatley book to introduce me to the author, but I don't think that Dennis Wheatley will be an automatic add on author to my TBR pile. I found that it finished very well, but it did rather drag in other parts. I do think that I remember reading somewhere that this particular novel was made into a Hammer Films movie sometime in the 1970s along with another one or two of Dennis Wheatley's novels.Anyway, I think that I will give this book a B+! I did enjoy the premise of the novel and found that there were parts that moved along quite quickly.
I had never actually heard of Dennis Wheatley as an author before and never realized that he was such a prolific writer. Hidden away beneath the stones of Bentford Priory, a hideous monster created by a satanic priest awaited a virgin sacrifice to bring it to life.I have to say that I requested this book because I enjoy occult novels. As that terrible power began to emerge, it called out to the mist and rain of the Essex marshes. Dark, demonic power rose inside her and threatened all around her. But every evening, as darkness fell, Christina changed amazingly. Christina seemed no different from any other young girl - polite, attractive and a little shy.
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