The Satanist (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Dennis Wheatley
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—occult
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: England and Switzerland
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy, Magical and occult fantasy
- Subjects: 1960’s, Police, Prostitution or prostitutes, England or English people, Devils or demons, Nuclear warfare or weapons, Twins or multiple-birth siblings, Switzerland or Swiss people, Satan or Satanism
- Locales: England, Switzerland
The Plot
Dennis Wheatley’s tale of a satanic plot takes place within a Cold War framework: A nuclear warhead is used to menace the world with total destruction. This novel is one of several by this author that involve satanism and anticommunist sentiments, and it is perhaps his most successful effort in crossing genre boundaries.
As the novel opens, Colonel C. B. Verney, Special Branch (a character from Wheatley’s 1953 To the Devil— A Daughter), is studying a photograph of one of his agents, Teddy Morden, found in an alley with his throat slit. Verney...
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