Just stopped reading
The Devil Rides Out by Dennis Wheatley. It may be well researched, but I do not see how this book gets a lot of accolades. The prose is dull. The characters simple, no depth. The brief appearances of monsters are decent, but are very brief. I can get passed the african fetishism, classism, sexism, and stereo-typing of Americans(it was published in 1935 England), but there is very little quality to this writing. By comparison in various Lovecraft stories all of these things were there, but the stories were fantastically written and so forth.
I could not finish it. I came to a point that was so obvious in coming and the type of stupid things we see people do in horror films do to further the plot. It took me a month and a half to read 183 pages, but I wanted to try to finish it. I gave up. Pass on this thing.
I'm now starting
Personal Darkness by Tanith Lee. Its the second book in the Blood Opera Sequence. The first
Dark Dance was very good. 9/10. The cover makes it look like its about sex, but its not. I highly suggest it.