Dennis Wheatley – What's New (2006-2007)

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Date	Amendment / addition	Link to new / amended area
25 July 2008	This month, jackets for Eve Chaucer’s 'Better To Marry' and Elizabeth Hely’s ‘Package Deal’ have been added to the website, both thanks to Jamie Sturgeon. A number of additions have also been made to the ‘Other Publications : Books and Articles about DW’ Section. Among these are :- The Bookplate Journal in 1986, which has an article on DW’s very personal bookplate; Country Houses around Lymington by Blake Pinnell, which has a chapter on Grove House in which DW features prominently; Hammer’s Little Shoppe of Horrors for April 1994, which has articles about Hammer’s filming of various DW novels and last and most certainly not least, and with many thanks to Paul Barnes, Hammer Horror and Dark Terrors magazines both had several reviews of DW’s films, as did Video Watchdog magazine. Thank you, Jamie and Paul, for your contribution to the archives !	Books by other members of the Wheatley / Younger Clan Other Publications : Critiques / Books & Articles about Dennis Wheatley
27 June 2008	This month, covers for William Younger’s ‘The Lobster Guerillas’ and the first U.K. edition of Elizabeth Hely’s ‘A Mark Of Displeasure’ have been added to the website thanks to Jamie Sturgeon. ‘The Artist Magazine’ for July 1967, which includes an article on DW’s second portrait, by Michael Noakes, has been added thanks to Steve Whatley (the first portrait, by Cynthia Montefiore, can be seen on the back of the first edition of ‘Vendetta In Spain’). In the same section have been added two magazine articles from the 1950s about DW and his life at Grove House, and the auction catalogue for the sale of its contents in October 1968. Elsewhere, the illustrations of the Board Games have been improved and extended, and now include the De Luxe version of Invasion, while the notes on Invasion & the First Gift Box have also been updated – in the case of Invasion noting some hitherto unrecorded differences between the first and third editions.	Books by other members of the Wheatley / Younger Clan Other Publications : Critiques / Books & Articles about Dennis Wheatley First editions 1938 - 1939 First editions 1952 - 1955
28 May 2008	The first ever Dennis Wheatley Convention was held on 17th May at the Corus Hotel in Elstree, the location for filming some of the scenes in The Devil Rides Out. For a report on the Convention, click the link on the right.	The Dennis Wheatley Convention 2008
30 April 2008	The memoirs of Captain the Right Reverend Dom Rudesind Brookes OBE MC TD OSB (‘Father Dolly’) as narrated by DW’s son Anthony have been added to the list of books written by DW’s family. Among other changes, a new page has been added to the ‘Other Publications’ section listing various TV & Radio programmes featuring Dennis Wheatley or with a Wheatley related content. Thanks to Phil Baker for helping with the material – and if you can add to this list please let me know ! Smaller changes include reference to the PC games of the Crime Dossiers that were released in the 1990s and the addition of a previously unrecorded wartime Book Club edition of Uncharted Seas.	Books by other members of the Wheatley / Younger clan Other publications : TV and Radio programmes… The Crime Dossiers of Dennis Wheatley Book Club editions
21 April 2008	DW enters a new era ! Chorion, a leading provider of quality entertainment for the global marketplace which owns and manages the worldwide IP rights to some of the greatest novelists and mystery writers of all time, and whose portfolio includes Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler and Georges Simenon, has announced that it has acquired the literary estate of Dennis Wheatley. Tamsen Harward, Chorion’s Literary Estates Business Manager, states in their Press Release, "Dennis Wheatley was a hugely successful author who is primed to be 'rediscovered' by the next generation. Chorion is looking at the Wheatley portfolio from a fresh perspective and considering everything from republishing his out-of-print works, to new adaptations for the young adult market and film opportunities". For the text of the full Press Release, click the link to the right	LATEST BOOK NEWS
19 March 2008	This month’s updates concentrate on revamping and expanding the section on publications in the U.S.A. A new sub-section has been added detailing the U.S.Crime Dossier reprints, including a 1930’s ‘File on Robert Prentice’ and the 1970s / 1980s reprints. Four Ballantines and one Bantam edition have been added to the fiction reprints, and the U.S. edition of The Devil And All His Works has been added to the non-fiction section. Finally, I have learned that The Fabulous Valley was serialised in the ‘This Week’ weekend supplement of a number of U.S. newspapers in March / April 1936, and scans of all but one of the episodes have been included. The newspapers are exceptionally fragile, but the period illustrations are quite superb.	Non-UK editions: U.S.A.
22 February 2008	This month's update consists of a number of rare, and in some cases historic, foreign editions. First and foremost, DW’s own copy of the Czech edition of Who Killed Robert Prentice, which he inscribed ‘My own copy of the second Murder Dossier, and the first to be published in Czech (being my 3rd Czech translation). Published the day before Hitler entered Prague. March 1939. Dennis Wheatley’ Second, a hitherto unknown pre-war German edition of the same title – an edition which necessitates some re-writing of Crime Dossier history - as it was thought not to exist! Third, what is arguably the first Belgian edition of a DW book to grace these pages – a copy of ‘Le Glaive du Destin’ (The Sword of Fate) with the text block printed in Belgium in 1948. Finally, an early French issue (1939) of Contraband.	Non-UK editions: Czechoslovakia Non-UK editions: Germany The Crime Dossiers of Dennis Wheatley Non-UK editions: Belgium Non-UK editions: France
18 January 2008	Breaking News - DW’s 'long lost' novel' The Lusty Youth of Roger Brook' has turned up ! Known only to a handful of enthusiasts from a brief reference to its existence in DW's unpublished Will of 30th June 1971 (unpublished because it was superseded by a later version), nothing was known of its contents, and I for one had given up hope of ever seeing it, and was beginning to doubt its very existence. It is an unexpurgated version of 'The Launching of Roger Brook' with a few bits of 'The Man Who Killed The King' added in, which is unlikely for various reasons ever to be seen in published form. For further details, click the link.	The Lusty Youth of Roger Brook

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