The Spear

The Spear

"The Spear" is a 1978 novel by British author James Herbert dealing with Nazi occultism and the Holy Lance.

Plot summary

The book deals with a neo-Nazi cult in Britain and an international conspiracy which includes a right-wing US general and a sinister arms dealer, and their obsession with and through the occult with resurrecting Heinrich Himmler.

Court case

In an earlier version of the The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail/The Da Vinci Code lawsuit, [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4888954.stm 'No surprise' in Da Vinci judgement] ] Trevor Ravenscroft sued James Herbert [ [http://slcc.strath.ac.uk/scotslawcourse/ip/ip/copy/raven.html Ravenscroft v Herbert (1980) RPC 193] ] claiming the novel infringed on his 1973 non-fiction book "The Spear of Destiny". [citebook
last = Ravenscroft
first = Trevor
title = The Spear of Destiny
publisher = Weiser Books
date = 1982
id = ISBN 0877285470 ] Herbert declined to pay Ravenscroft damages and eventually removed the offending content. [Nick Freeman (2006) [http://journals.mup.man.ac.uk/cgi-bin/MUP?COMval=article&key=GOTH/V8I2/080080.xml 'A decadent appetite for the lurid'?: James Herbert, The Spear and 'Nazi Gothic'] . "Gothic Studies" Volume 8 (2). 80-97.]

ee also

*Nazi occultism

References


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