S 4.2 The Devil Rides Out!

<p>Summer is for trashy beach novels and Dennis Wheatley's 1934 <em>The Devil Rides Out</em> definitely qualifies. We discuss problematic genre fiction, fake rituals, the rhetorical trap of being asked "do you believe in evil?" and racial demonology of the late British empire.</p><p><br></p><p>Some useful scholarship: Timothy Jones, <a href="doi.org/10.5204/mcj.849"; rel="nofollow">"The Black Mass as Play: Dennis Wheatley's <em>The Devil Rides Out"</em></a><em> </em><em>M/C Journal</em><span>, </span><em>1</em><span>7(4).</span></p>