The Dennis Wheatley 'Museum' - Dennis Wheatley’s Writing Technique

Dennis Wheatley’s Writing Technique

DW at his writing desk in Lymington

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A display of DW's books in English
and foreign languages in the 1930s

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DW was an author who carefully filed things and never threw anything away, and although only a few people knew it up to now, each time he finished a novel, he would carefully gather up his draft and working papers and tie them up in a brown paper parcel.

That these parcels have survived¹ is a matter which was known to only a tiny number of people until I disclosed it at the 2023 Convention.

They are currently held in a private collection, and for the last few years I have been studying them and carrying out some high level conservation².

I am displaying their contents for the first time. Most of the parcels have not been opened since they were tied up and filed away by DW.

Thanks to an examination of the contents of these packs, we are now able to see for the first time:

• DW's writing methodology.
• The enormous amount of research and preparation that DW did before he started writing.
• Which books he wrote by hand, and which few he dictated.
• The enormous amount of time DW spent refining what he had written.

This Exhibition displays comfortably in excess of a hundred exhibits which until now will only have been seen by Dennis Wheatley and his secretary of the time.

C.T.H.B
March 2025