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Title: The Devil Rides Out by Denis Wheatley ISBN: 0-7493-0678-5 Publisher: Arrow (A Division of Random House Group) Pub. Date: 21 February, 1991 Format: Paperback |
Average Customer Rating: 4.23 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A well-written, scary tale with excellent factual bases.
Comment: 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!
Rating: 5
Summary: As good as it gets!
Comment: I've read many books but I liked only a few of them,about let's say...5% or maybe less.The last book I liked was The Equinox by Aleister Crowley(interest for the supernatural is obvious I think...).I found "The Devil Rides Out" which in Greek is translated in something like "Aussault of Satan" in a bench of an old lady who almost begged me to get it in a ridiculous price and I'm really lucky I did because a week later she was already gone.My problem with novels is that I can't stand the long,boring descriptions because I read REAAAALLY slowly!When I started reading the book I said:"Wow!This looks great!" After a few chapters though action was missing(for just 2 chapters) and I left the book(big mistake).After a month or so I started it again and I was found finishing it in 2 days!To begin with it is a very good novel with vivid descriptions which you can ACTUALLY feel and it also mentions things that anyone who might be interested in magic,mysticism etc.would find them really precious as to where he should begin from.So it's 2 in 1.Plus,the book is amazingly easy-read.Last but not least I cannot understand this language "problem".I had been reading it translated but the "strange language" was translated as well and if you consider the time that the story was taking place then in which way should the characters be talking?As if they were living in 2525?Another thing that picked my interest was the descrition of the Greek places and I was really excited that those steep places and the way people were living back then were described exactly as they were and still are in some villages up there!Really good work and a book that is absolutely worth reading!
Rating: 2
Summary: Wheatley's most famous, but hardly his finest..
Comment: 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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Title: To the Devil, a daughter by Dennis Wheatley ISBN: 0099072505 Publisher: Arrow Books Pub. Date: 1974 |
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Title: The Satanist by Dennis Wheatley ISBN: 0749322721 Publisher: Reed Consumer Books Pub. Date: December, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The haunting of Toby Jugg by Dennis Wheatley ISBN: 009907270X Publisher: Arrow Books Pub. Date: 1974 |
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Title: Strange Conflict by D. Wheatley ISBN: 0099089009 Publisher: Arrow (A Division of Random House Group) |
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Title: Gateway to Hell by Dennis Wheatley ISBN: 0091025702 Publisher: Hutchinson Pub. Date: 1970 |
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