List of Illustrations

Wheatley’s bookplate, with Eric Gordon Tombe here

Wheatley and his mother here

Wheatley as a small boy here

Aspen House here

Wheatley as an H.M.S. Worcester cadet here

Barbara Symonds here

Hilda Gosling here

“My House” here

Wheatley as an artillery lieutenant here

Wheatley and Eric Gordon Tombe here

Wheatley’s card from the Anti-Prohibition League here

Wheatley’s own design for his bookplate here

Nancy, Wheatley’s first wife here

The Lovely Lady of Berkeley Square here

Wheatley and Joan, his second wife (photo: Hulton Getty) here

The Forbidden Territory here

Wheatley’s copy of Magick in Theory in Practice here

Montague Summers here

A poster for a Thirties talk on black magic here

Rollo Ahmed’s The Black Art here

Ahmed as Mr.A, performing a ritual in 1954 (photo: Mirrorpix) here

The Devil Rides Out and “the lovely Tanith” here

The blackmail photograph here

Balloon hopping here

Strange Conflict here

Total War here

Painting of Wheatley by Cynthia Montefiore here

Wheatley with his serpentine wall here

Grove Place here

Of Vice and Virtue here

Wheatley’s figure of Kwan-Yin (photo: Derek Witty) here

Occult nudity circa 1970 here

“Black Magic is Dennis Wheatley” here

The Heron Library advert here

Arrow paperbacks here

The 75th birthday brochure here

Wheatley at his desk in Cadogan Square here

The Devil and All His Works here

Wheatley looking at the stars (photo: Topfoto) here

Photographs of Wheatley by courtesy of the Wheatley family unless credited otherwise.

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Wheatley admiring the stars he cut out and stuck on his bedroom ceiling at Grove Place. He liked to look at them by candlelight: “One feels away from it all. It is enchanting.”