The Dennis Wheatley 'Museum' - DW's Library

Dennis Wheatley's Library - modern first editions
Frederick Cowles

DW’s copies of two of Cowles’s most famous books

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Cowles sends DW an advanced proof of ‘The Night Wind Howls’,
and comments on sales of ‘The Golden Spaniard’

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DW and Horror writer Frederick Cowles were friends, and kept up quite a correspondence.

Cowles invited DW up to Pendlebury to talk about ‘Black Magic’, and Cowles last book, ‘Vagabond Pilgrimage’ was dedicated to DW. Cowles died before it was published, and his widow sent DW a copy.

DW’s copies of Cowles’s most famous works have fetched fantastic prices. ‘The Horror of Abbot’s Grange (1936) went for £10 In Blackwell’s catalogue, and ‘The Night Wind Howls’ (1938) went for £8. Each was offered (separately) for a price of £4,750 in a specialist bookseller’s catalogue in 2009.

References : See The Museum, Room Seven

Provenance : Cowles letter – Private collection