Series
Duke de Richleau
Dennis Wheatley · 4 novels · 1933–1970
The Duke de Richleau novels follow Dennis Wheatley's aristocratic adventurer and occultist across four decades of twentieth-century intrigue, moving from a 1930s rescue thriller in The Forbidden Territory into Satanist set-pieces such as The Devil Rides Out and Strange Conflict, then a later case in Gateway to Hell. Wheatley wrote the books out of order over nearly forty years, but their internal chronology matches the order they were published in.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Duke de Richleau at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1930s2
- 1940s1
- 1950s0
- 1960s0
- 1970s1
Shape
4 novels
1 author · completed series
reads like:thriller & suspensedemonseuropeearly 20th centurytenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 75% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Gateway to Helldarkest · calmest
- The Forbidden Territorybrightest · most intense