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Dennis Wheatley
Portrait by Allan Warren, 1975
Portrait by Allan Warren, 1975
BornDennis Yates Wheatley
(1897-01-08)8 January 1897
Brixton Hill, London, England
Died10 November 1977(1977-11-10) (aged 80)
Cadogan Square, Knightsbridge, London, England
Resting placeBrookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
OccupationWriter, editor[1]
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipBritish
Period1930–1980[1]
GenreAdventure, occult, and historical fiction[1]
Notable works
  • The Forbidden Territory
  • The Devil Rides Out
[1]

Dennis Yates Wheatley (8 January 1897 – 10 November 1977) was a British writer whose prolific output of thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930s through to the 1960s.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e Doherty, Bernard (October 2022). Asprem, Egil (ed.). "Black Magicians and Foreign Devils in Little Britain: Dennis Wheatley and the Invention of British Satanism". Aries. 12 (1). Leiden: Brill Publishers on behalf of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism: 1–29. doi:10.1163/15700593-tat00001. eISSN 1570-0593. ISSN 1567-9896. S2CID 253135594.

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