![]() ![]() “There were no classes or teaching in the accepted sense… Every pupil could take whichever subjects he or she liked best… In the recreation hours there were no organised games… the only penalty for not getting up at the usual hour in the morning was that, when you did, you had to make your own bed… In the book a school is described where children were sent to learn to reject Christianity and embrace Satanism: The man in charge of the castle proves to be a member of a Satanist cult who plagues Toby with manifestations including supernatural spiders. Sent to convalesce in a Welsh castle, Toby is haunted by a multiple-legged and evil presence that the young airman comes to believe is the Devil. ![]() The narrative tells of Toby, a disabled British airman recovering from his experiences in World War II. In 1948 Wheatley published ‘The Haunting of Toby Jugg’, a psychological and occult thriller which used his usual themes of satanic possession and madness. His main characters are all enthusiasts for Royalty, Empire and class system, with the bad guys usually critics of the established order. Wheatley’s right-wing politics are evident in his many novels. His Gregory Sallust series was one of the main inspirations for Ian Fleming’s James Bond stories. ![]() Dennis Wheatley’s huge output of thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world’s best-selling writers from the 1930s to the 1960s. ![]()
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