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by Charles
Mon 16 Feb, 2015 23:17:21
Forum: Introductions
Topic: It isn't Wheatley, but...
Replies: 4
Views: 27795

Dear Ian,

Many thanks - I'll certainly have a read ... I'm looking forward to it and hope it does well !

Fourteen was definitely a good age to start reading DW ... that's when I started too !

Best regards,
by Charles
Wed 4 Feb, 2015 23:24:32
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Dennis Wheatley Podcasts
Replies: 77
Views: 1592416

I'd have gone for 'The Maracot Deep', Conan Doyle's last (I think) novel ... and a novel which ends with a climatic Black Magic versus White Magic battle.

What do you reckon, Jim ?

It's too short as it's a short story, but 'The Brown Hand' was also pretty marvellous ...

All best as always !
by Charles
Sun 1 Feb, 2015 18:05:39
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Dennis Wheatley Podcasts
Replies: 77
Views: 1592416

You are your usual observant self, Darren !

I had often wondered why DW hadn't included M R James in the series - now your sharp eyes have revealed that he intended to.

I'm so glad as the stories are among my favourites.

All best !
by Charles
Tue 13 Jan, 2015 23:27:33
Forum: General Topics
Topic: long overdue post
Replies: 2
Views: 7728

On the film side, I'm glad everyone enjoyed 'Alias Nick Beal'. When I was a boy in the early 1960s, it used to be shown regularly on TV in the Sunday matinee slot, and I always thought it was a cut above the usual light weight musicals that were put on. For me it's in the same sphere as 'The Ninth G...
by Charles
Tue 6 Jan, 2015 23:08:03
Forum: General Topics
Topic: BBC 2 TV 'Mastermind'
Replies: 17
Views: 46479

Darren,

What can I say ???

Wow !
by Charles
Fri 21 Nov, 2014 20:50:30
Forum: General Topics
Topic: DW in the Australian Press Archives
Replies: 2
Views: 7175

Thank you, Darren !

'Trove' seems an apt name, and I and everyone else will look forward to hearing what treasures you are able to unearth when you have time to delve further. A quick look suggests it will be very exciting !

Very best wishes as always !
by Charles
Sun 16 Nov, 2014 22:11:43
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Dennis Wheatley's Limericks from the Great War
Replies: 12
Views: 19382

You were both being cautious for my sake and I appreciate it .... if the site is blocked (I hope not !) it will be my fault ! But it seems to me we should be able to include them ... if we can talk about DW's exploits with 'Shitty Bill' Inglis and his amorous escapades in France in World War I (as w...
by Charles
Sun 16 Nov, 2014 20:15:01
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Dennis Wheatley's Limericks from the Great War
Replies: 12
Views: 19382

Management thinks it's ok ... thanks for checking ... we're all adults, and far worse is available on the internet these days at the click of a button !

Nice work, Jim - and thank you !
by Charles
Fri 14 Nov, 2014 18:04:10
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Dennis Wheatley's Limericks from the Great War
Replies: 12
Views: 19382

I like the comparison with nude selfies. Very up-to-date ! As this and parts of the Museum show, human nature doesn't change that much over the years, does it ? These limericks can perhaps be seen as the teenage precusors of his later erotic writing, and especially of his unpublished erotic masterpi...
by Charles
Wed 5 Nov, 2014 22:23:49
Forum: General Topics
Topic: The 2015 Convention
Replies: 20
Views: 38305

The 2015 Convention

Dear All, This is just to confirm that at the 2014 Convention it was unanimously decided that the 2015 Convention should take place on Saturday 31st October 2015 - again at the Laura Ashley The Manor Hotel at Elstree. If anyone has suggestions for talks or other activities, please contact Ken Gallac...
by Charles
Fri 31 Oct, 2014 09:35:03
Forum: General Topics
Topic: BBC 2 TV 'Mastermind'
Replies: 17
Views: 46479

Actually Darren I think you've exceeded my request ! Thanks to your research we now know that there was at least one Mastermind on each of DW's principal characters - Roger Brook (UK Mastermind - where we have the Questions and Answers), Gregory Sallust (in New Zealand, thanks to Cibator's post .......
by Charles
Sat 27 Sep, 2014 10:50:17
Forum: To The Devil a Daughter
Topic: TO THE DEVIL-A DAUGHTER
Replies: 19
Views: 60506

At last there seems to be growing respect for this film. Has this film ever been shown at a DW convention? If not, could it happen this year? I can bring a copy. We need to spend more effort in persuading Charles and Stevie P. whom are probably yet to be convinced. The opening paragraph of Stevie P...
by Charles
Fri 12 Sep, 2014 12:14:06
Forum: General Topics
Topic: DW and Stonehenge
Replies: 1
Views: 5727

... and don't forget the exhibition at Lymington, 'Lives Less Ordinary', which runs from Saturday 15th November to 10th January if you are in the vicinity.

It will be nice to have TWO exhibitions featuring DW on at the same time !
by Charles
Fri 12 Sep, 2014 12:04:27
Forum: Introductions
Topic: A New Member Steps Into the Library
Replies: 7
Views: 30730

Dear Richard, I know we had a brief email exchange earlier, but this is just to add another warm welcome to the site. I would have joined the other posters earlier, but I've been away. Like you, I am an enormous fan of the Duke de Richleau; unlike the others, I am not quite so keen on The Haunting o...
by Charles
Fri 29 Aug, 2014 16:21:12
Forum: General Topics
Topic: Bloomsbury to re-publish Dennis Wheatley
Replies: 43
Views: 109285

Jim, I am not aware of any complicated copyright issues in relation to the majority of DW's works. Unless someone knows something I don't on this (they may well), perhaps that passage in the Wikipedia entry should be amended. The filming rights - at least for The Devil Rides Out, and possibly for ot...

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