The Haunting of Toby Jugg (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Dennis Wheatley
- First Published: 1948
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—occult
- Time of Work: During World War II
- Setting: Wales
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy, Magical and occult fantasy
- Subjects: Spiders, Communism or communists, Love or romance, 1940’s, World War II, 1930’s, Good and evil, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Devils or demons, Houses, mansions, or manors, Wales or Welsh people, Satan or Satanism
- Locales: Wales
The Plot
This novel concerns a struggle between the forces of God and Satan for the souls of a pair of young lovers. It has a political cast, with God on the side of British democracy and Satan helping the communists. The novel is one of a number by this author that involve Satanism and communism, along with brainwashing, hypnotism, and extrasensory perception (ESP).
Toby Jugg, soon to turn twenty-one and inherit the largest industrial fortune in Great Britain, lies paralyzed from the waist down in a bed in the library of an old mansion near the village of Llanferdrack...
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