''Curtain of Fear'' is a 1953 thriller novel by the British writer

Dennis Wheatley Dennis Yeats Wheatley (8 January 1897 – 10 November 1977) was a British writer whose prolific output of thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930s through the 1960s. His Gregory Sallust series ...

. During the early stages of the

Cold War The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because the ...

, a Czech-born British professor attempts to make his escape from Communist Czechoslovakia across the

Iron Curtain The Iron Curtain was the political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The term symbolizes the efforts by the Soviet Union (USSR) to block itself and its s ...

into the West.Williams & Sheeha p.7

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* Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015. * Williams, Emma & Sheeha, Iman. '' Deception: An Interdisciplinary Exploration''. BRILL, 2019. 1953 British novels Novels by Dennis Wheatley Novels set in Czechoslovakia British thriller novels Novels set during the Cold War Hutchinson (publisher) books {{ColdWar-novel-stub