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Before the vogue of apocalyptic fiction really took off, in 1932 Dennis Wheatley researched and imagined a party of would-be survivors in the glow of a pending comet on course to collide with planet earth. Astronomers could see it coming, civilians could slowly feel the effect of its rays tuning into their baser violent or passionate instincts, but what action would the government take amongst the rumours in such uncertainty? Evacuate the cities under martial law and risk national panic and chaos, or simply deny knowledge to maintain order in the hope that scientific predictions would prove false? For millionaire Sam Curry, and his young wife and Hollywood starlet, Lavina, on learning of the...
Phil Baker examines Wheatley's friendship with a fraudster named Eric Gordon Tombe, and uncovers the full story of his 1922 murder. The author also explores Wheatley's relationships with occult figures such as Rollo Ahmed, Aleister Crowley and the Reverend Montague Summers.