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- Fri 21 Nov, 2014 21:03:33
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: The Secret of Flat 35
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7019
- Fri 14 Nov, 2014 10:16:45
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Dennis Wheatley's Limericks from the Great War
- Replies: 12
- Views: 19703
Hmmm, yes .... not at all the sort of thing you associate with Mr Wheatley! The equivalent, I suppose, ninety-odd years ago, of posting nude selfies. Where are the originals held nowadays? They obviously passed out of DW's control, else I'm sure he'd have destroyed them once he became famous, for fe...
- Fri 7 Nov, 2014 22:11:13
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Dennis Wheatley in the Radio Times listings
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8306
Aha! I remember listening to that Let's Find Out programme in 1967. It was hard to believe anyone could outdo chairman Peter Haigh's ultra-BBC accent, but DW managed it. I can't recall much of the actual discussion, only that DW was quite emphatic in restating his beliefs about occult/unseen forces,...
- Wed 5 Nov, 2014 10:45:36
- Forum: The Satanist
- Topic: The Satanist
- Replies: 2
- Views: 47402
- Tue 25 Mar, 2014 19:26:17
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Black August and Shingle Street
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11007
I notice you are a fair way from Tendring now, did you live there once? Yes, though never permanently. My family relocated to Alresford from north London in 1969, and my mother lives there still. I was there only for university vacations, and afterwards the occasional week-end. A few years before, ...
- Mon 24 Mar, 2014 19:05:20
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Black August and Shingle Street
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11007
Welcome aboard, OldJiver. Always good to have new posters on here. And photos of DW-associated sites are much appreciated. As I've remarked elsewhere, the Tendring Hundred is much changed from sixty years ago, so it's good to see Shingle Street hasn't suffered to the same extent (though the loss of ...
- Wed 19 Mar, 2014 06:07:57
- Forum: Traitors Gate
- Topic: Traitors Gate
- Replies: 7
- Views: 74294
(As for Guinness, I thought it was a glass of mud with a head...) That made me laugh Jim. And, although I'm quite partial to the stuff myself, I'll be the first to concede it's an acquired taste. I'm wondering if anyone here's ever tried Black Velvet (the stout and champagne cocktail quaffed by man...
- Thu 23 Jan, 2014 04:14:30
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: DW and the Yanks
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8735
Such Power Is Dangerous is, I seem to remember, set almost wholly in the USA. It was published very early in DW's career, when he still hadn't fully found his true direction as an author, and thought he had to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Which in those days often meant writing about Am...
- Sun 27 Oct, 2013 20:44:03
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Daily Express Article
- Replies: 16
- Views: 21194
- Wed 25 Sep, 2013 20:58:58
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Dennis Wheatley Podcasts
- Replies: 77
- Views: 1625239
- Mon 23 Sep, 2013 12:05:07
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Archaic Terminology
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10552
- Mon 23 Sep, 2013 11:42:44
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Dennis Wheatley Podcasts
- Replies: 77
- Views: 1625239
I've been following this (and other language-related threads) with great interest. EricMocata, you're right about the large number of regional accents even within England, let alone the rest of the British Isles. Though this is also true of other countries - for instance, there are numerous variants...
- Thu 29 Aug, 2013 05:27:01
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Bloomsbury to re-publish Dennis Wheatley
- Replies: 43
- Views: 136108
Interesting to see (on their website) that the color choices for the Bloomsbury covers match those of the Arrow paperbacks from the 1970s: blue for Roger Brook, green for De Richleau, and red for Gregory Sallust. Wonder why they went with that, instead of the one for the Lymingtons? The latter, IIR...
- Mon 27 May, 2013 22:37:01
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Clinton House
- Replies: 45
- Views: 67457
- Fri 3 May, 2013 21:06:46
- Forum: General Topics
- Topic: Bloomsbury to re-publish Dennis Wheatley
- Replies: 43
- Views: 136108