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Dennis Wheatley

    January 8, 1897 – November 10, 1977

    Dennis Wheatley was an English author renowned for his stylish thrillers and occult novels, which established him as one of the world's best-selling writers in the 1950s and 1960s. His plots often wove fictional characters into real historical events and figures, spanning from the French Revolution to World War II, and delving into espionage, Satanism, and magic. Wheatley experimented with narrative forms, notably creating detective cases presented as dossiers of evidence for readers to solve. He was considered an authority on the supernatural, though he held a hostile view towards it.

    Dennis Wheatley
    The Secret War
    White Witch of the South Seas
    To the Devil, a Daughter
    The Devil Rides Out
    Desperate Measures
    Principles of Dowsing
    • 2013

      Toby Jugg le possédé

      • 387 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Paralysé des jambes à la suite d'un combat aérien, Toby Jugg vit dans une vieille demeure du Pays de Galles, isolée et sans électricité. Une nuit, une sorte de monstre l'assaille et bientôt, de loin en loin, resurgit. Alors Toby Jugg s'interroge, scrute ses souvenirs, réfléchit tant et plus jusqu'à soupçonner son entourage d'étranges agissements...Dennis Wheatley est né à Londres en 1897. Il a dix-sept ans lorsque éclate la Première Guerre mondiale. Envoyé en France, il est gravement gaze en 1918, mais ces années lui ont donné le goût d’écrire. Il débute par des nouvelles, mais connaît son premier succès – immense – avec Territoire interdit, son premier roman, qui sera porté à l’écran l’année suivante. Son œvre, riche de près de 80 romans, est celle d’un grand romancier populaire (au sense élevé du terme) désireux d’explorer tous les terrains de la literature de l’ l’histoire, le mystère, l’espionnage et même la science-fiction. Dennis Wheatley, dont certains romans se sont vendus à plus d’un million et demi d’exemplaires et qui est célèbre dans les pays anglo-saxons, est mort en 1977.

      Toby Jugg le possédé
    • 2000

      Principles of Dowsing

      • 160 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      This introduction begins with an explanation of what dowsing is and how anyone can do it, goes on to look at the history of dowsing and famous dowsers, then gives detailed instructions on which dowsing tools to use, how best to use them, and different ways of dowsing. There is a list of sites with particular spiritual energy which are good for dowsing covering both British Isles and US.

      Principles of Dowsing
    • 2000

      The White Witch of the South Seas is a spellbinding story of adventure and intrigue told in the true Wheatley tradition, featuring Gregory Sallust who, when visiting Rio de Janeiro, again becomes drawn into perilous action. Circumstance leads to him becoming the friend of a young South Seas Rajah, Ratu James Omboluku, there to secure finance to recover treasure from a sunken ship lying off the island he rules; and he intends to use this treasure for the betterment of his people.But others, led by the unscrupulous Pierre Lacost, are also planning to recover the treasure, and it is not long before Gregory, having an affair with the passionate Manon de Bois-Tracy, finds himself surrounded by murder, magic, blackmail, kidnapping and some of the most ruthless thugs he has ever encountered.

      White Witch of the South Seas
    • 1994

      Británii rozedírá vnitřní krize národní bezpečnosti. Na rozkaz vlády se Sir Gifford Hillary vrhá do tajného boje proti moci sovětského Ruska. Ale nebezpečí číhá mnohem blíže, než kdy tušil. Propletenec nenávisti a zrady pramení v samotné Longshot Hall. Pak, v noci na 9. září, dojde k události, jež otřese hranicemi lidské zkušenosti. Gifford Hillary se stává svědkem své vlastní smrti..... celý text

      Astrální dvojník Gifforda Hillaryho
    • 1974