The book starts off with him sitting in his apartment in London as the city is being bombed to shit. Astral projection gives the Duke the ability to leave his body and go anywhere in the world. Ok Voodoo Nazis, sounds great right? Well yeah, that is super cool, but let’s just think about the idea of using astral projection as a means of espionage for a moment. Using astral-projection, the Duke figures out that the Nazis are getting their info from an evil Voodoo priest in Haiti. It sees the Duke and his mates being hired to discover how Nazi U-Boats have been successfully figuring out the trade routes of English ships. This was an enjoyable entry to the series, but it’s a pretty bad book.

Unlike the other two books in this post, I read this one last week, so it’s still fairly fresh in my memory. My copy of Devil Rides Out is a fancy hardback reissue. The movie is deadly too, but for the love of Satan, read the book first. If you know that much and don’t want to read this, you’re a piece of shit. This is definitely one of the best places to start if you haven’t read any Wheatley before. This book is about Satanists, pentagrams, rituals, goats, spells, and demons. It’s been a long time since I read this one, but I remember it well enough to know that you don’t need an in-depth review to decide whether or not you should read it. Hutchinson and Co – 1972 (Originally published 1934) The Duke De Richleau series contains 3 Black Magic novels, including The Devil Rides Out, perhaps Wheatley’s most famous book. Most of his books were spy novels, but he was also a self proclaimed expert on the occult, and some of his books, 2 of which I have already reviewed, deal with black magic.

For all of the philistines reading my blog, Wheatley was a prolific author of trashy adventure novels. It may come as surprise to some of you, but I am neither French nor a Duke. Le Duc De Richleau is the hero in a collection of 11 novels by Dennis Wheatley.

Author of the devil rides out