About Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson is a renowned authority on the paranormal and is the author of over fifty books, with subjects ranging from mysticism, to criminology. He has also written numerous articles and plays and contributed to several newspapers and journals. He regards himself primarily as a philosopher concerned with the meaning of human existence.
Series
Gerard Sorme
1. Ritual in the Dark (1960)
2. Man Without a Shadow (1963)
aka The Sex Diary of Gerard Sorme
3. The God of the Labyrinth (1970)
aka The Hedonists
1. Ritual in the Dark (1960)
2. Man Without a Shadow (1963)
aka The Sex Diary of Gerard Sorme
3. The God of the Labyrinth (1970)
aka The Hedonists
Novels
Adrift in Soho (1961)
The World of Violence (1963)
aka The Violent World of Hugh Greene
Necessary Doubt (1964)
The Glass Cage (1966)
The Mind Parasites (1967)
The Philosopher's Stone (1969)
The Return of the Lloigor (1969)
The Killer (1970)
The Black Room (1971)
Lingard (1972)
The Schoolgirl Murder Case (1974)
The Space Vampires (1976)
aka Lifeforce
Starseekers (1980)
Frankenstein's Castle (1980)
The Janus Murder Case (1984)
The Personality Surgeon (1985)
The Magician from Siberia (1988)
The Devil's Party (2000)
The World of Violence (1963)
aka The Violent World of Hugh Greene
Necessary Doubt (1964)
The Glass Cage (1966)
The Mind Parasites (1967)
The Philosopher's Stone (1969)
The Return of the Lloigor (1969)
The Killer (1970)
The Black Room (1971)
Lingard (1972)
The Schoolgirl Murder Case (1974)
The Space Vampires (1976)
aka Lifeforce
Starseekers (1980)
Frankenstein's Castle (1980)
The Janus Murder Case (1984)
The Personality Surgeon (1985)
The Magician from Siberia (1988)
The Devil's Party (2000)
Collections
The Essential Colin Wilson (1985)
Qinmeartha and the Girl-Child LoChi, and The Tomb of the Old Ones (2002) (with John Grant)
Qinmeartha and the Girl-Child LoChi, and The Tomb of the Old Ones (2002) (with John Grant)
Series contributed to
The Mammoth Book of ...
The Mammoth Book of True Crime 2 (1988)
The Mammoth Book of the Supernatural (1991)
The Mammoth Book of Murder (2000)
The Mammoth Book of True Crime 2 (1988)
The Mammoth Book of the Supernatural (1991)
The Mammoth Book of Murder (2000)
Anthologies edited
Non fiction
The Outsider (1956)
Religion and the Rebel (1957)
The Age of Defeat (1959)
aka The Stature of Man
Encyclopedia of Murder (1961) (with Patricia Pitman)
The Strength to Dream: Literature and the Imagination (1961)
Origins of the Sexual Impulse (1963)
Brandy of the Damned (1964)
Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs (1964)
Beyond the Outsider (1965)
Eagle and Earwig (1965)
Chords and Discords: Purely Personal Opinions on Music (1966)
Introduction to the New Existentialism (1966)
Sex and the Intelligent Teenager (1966)
Bernard Shaw: A Reassessment (1969)
A Casebook of Murder (1969)
Poetry and Mysticism (1969)
Voyage to a Beginning (1969)
L'amour: The Ways of Love (1970)
The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (1970) (with J B Pick, E H Visiak) (see David Lindsay)
The Occult: A History (1971)
Order of Assassins: The Psychology of Murder (1972)
New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the post-Freudian revolution (1972)
Strange Powers (1973)
Tree by Tolkien (1973) (see J R R Tolkien)
Hermann Hesse (1974) (see Hermann Hesse)
Jorge Luis Borges (1974) (see Jorge Luis Borges)
A book of booze (1974)
The Unexplained (1975)
The Craft of the Novel (1975)
Mysterious Powers (1975)
aka They Had Strange Powers
The Geller phenomenon (1976) (see Uri Geller)
Enigmas and Mysteries (1976)
Colin Wilson's Men of Mystery (1977)
aka Dark Dimensions
Mysteries of the mind (1978) (with Stuart Holroyd)
Science Fiction As Existentialism (1978)
Mysteries (1978)
The War Against Sleep: The Philosophy of Gurdjieff (1980)
The Book of Time (1980) (with John Grant)
A Directory of Possibilities (1981) (with John Grant)
The Quest for Wilhelm Reich (1981)
Anti-Sartre, with an Essay on Camus (1981)
Witches (1981)
Poltergeist!: A Study in Destructive Haunting (1981)
The Goblin Universe (1982) (with Ted Holiday)
Access to Inner Worlds: The Story of Brad Absetz (1983)
Encyclopaedia of Modern Murder (1983) (with Donald Seaman)
Lord of the Underworld: Jung and the Twentieth Century (1984)
The Psychic Detectives: The Story of Psychometry and Paranormal Crime Detection (1984)
A Criminal History of Mankind (1984)
Jack the Ripper: Summing Up and Verdict (1984)
The Bicameral Critic (1985)
Rudolf Steiner: The Man and His Vision (1985)
Encyclopedia of Modern Murder 1962-1982 (1985)
After Life: Survival of the Soul (1985)
The Laurel and Hardy Theory of Consciousness (1986)
An essay on the new existentialism (1986)
An Encyclopedia of Scandal (1986) (with Donald Seaman)
Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast (1987) (see Aleister Crowley)
The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries (1987) (with Damon Wilson)
Musician As Outsider (1987)
The Atlantis Blueprint: Unlocking the Ancient Mysteries of a Long-Lost Civilization (1987) (with Rand Flem-Ath)
Autobiographical reflections (1988)
The Mammoth Book of True Crime (1988)
The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders (1988)
The Sex Diary of a Metaphysician (1988)
Beyond the Occult (1988)
Written in Blood: Detectives and Detection (1989)
Written in Blood: A History of Forensic Detection (1989) (with Damon Wilson)
The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved (1989)
The Haunted Man: The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (1990) (see David Lindsay)
The Serial Killers: A Study in the Psychology of Violence (1990) (with Donald Seaman)
Existentially Speaking: Essays on the Philosophy of Literature (1990)
Written in Blood: The Trail and the Hunt (1991)
Hesse, Reich, Borges (1991) (see Jorge Luis Borges and Hermann Hesse)
Unsolved Mysteries (1992) (with Damon Wilson)
Written in Blood: The Criminal Mind and Method (1992)
Sex, America, and Other Insights (1992)
Colin Wilson's True Crime File: Murder in the 1930s (1992)
From Atlantis to the Sphinx: Recovering the Lost Wisdom of the Ancient World (1993)
Murder in the 1940s: Colin Wilson's True Crime File (1993)
A Plague of Murder (1995)
Weird News Stories (1996)
The Atlas of Holy Places and Sacred Sites (1996)
The Killers Among Us: Motives Behind Their Madness : Book I (1996)
Unexplained: UFOs and Aliens (1997)
The Killers Among Us: Sex, Madness and Mass Murder : Book II (1997)
Ghost Sightings: Strange but True Series (1997)
Strange Vanishings: Strange but True Series (1997)
Unexplained: Mysteries of the Universe (1997)
Alien Dawn: An Investigation into the Contact Experience (1998)
Unexplained: Ghosts and the Supernatural (1998)
The Corpse Garden (1998)
The Books in My Life (1998)
Change Your Life With Accelerated Visualization (1999)
The Mammoth Book of the History of Murder (2000)
Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors (2000)
The Mammoth Book of Illustrated True Crime (2001)
The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts: A Riveting Investigation Into Channeling and Spirit Guides (2001)
Dreaming to Some Purpose: The Autobiography of Colin Wilson (2004)
History of Murder (2004)
Scandal!: Private Stories of Public Shame (2004) (with Damon Wilson)
Crimes of Passion (2006) (with Damon Wilson)
The Encyclopedia of Crime (2006) (with Oliver Cyriax and Damon Wilson)
Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals: 100,000 Years of Lost History (2006)
Serial Killer Investigations: The Story of Forensics and Profiling Through the Hunt for the World's Worst Murderers (2006)
Manhunt: A Study in Detection: Tracking Serial Killers (2006)
The Angry Years (2007)
Murder Casebook (2008)
Religion and the Rebel (1957)
The Age of Defeat (1959)
aka The Stature of Man
Encyclopedia of Murder (1961) (with Patricia Pitman)
The Strength to Dream: Literature and the Imagination (1961)
Origins of the Sexual Impulse (1963)
Brandy of the Damned (1964)
Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs (1964)
Beyond the Outsider (1965)
Eagle and Earwig (1965)
Chords and Discords: Purely Personal Opinions on Music (1966)
Introduction to the New Existentialism (1966)
Sex and the Intelligent Teenager (1966)
Bernard Shaw: A Reassessment (1969)
A Casebook of Murder (1969)
Poetry and Mysticism (1969)
Voyage to a Beginning (1969)
L'amour: The Ways of Love (1970)
The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (1970) (with J B Pick, E H Visiak) (see David Lindsay)
The Occult: A History (1971)
Order of Assassins: The Psychology of Murder (1972)
New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the post-Freudian revolution (1972)
Strange Powers (1973)
Tree by Tolkien (1973) (see J R R Tolkien)
Hermann Hesse (1974) (see Hermann Hesse)
Jorge Luis Borges (1974) (see Jorge Luis Borges)
A book of booze (1974)
The Unexplained (1975)
The Craft of the Novel (1975)
Mysterious Powers (1975)
aka They Had Strange Powers
The Geller phenomenon (1976) (see Uri Geller)
Enigmas and Mysteries (1976)
Colin Wilson's Men of Mystery (1977)
aka Dark Dimensions
Mysteries of the mind (1978) (with Stuart Holroyd)
Science Fiction As Existentialism (1978)
Mysteries (1978)
The War Against Sleep: The Philosophy of Gurdjieff (1980)
The Book of Time (1980) (with John Grant)
A Directory of Possibilities (1981) (with John Grant)
The Quest for Wilhelm Reich (1981)
Anti-Sartre, with an Essay on Camus (1981)
Witches (1981)
Poltergeist!: A Study in Destructive Haunting (1981)
The Goblin Universe (1982) (with Ted Holiday)
Access to Inner Worlds: The Story of Brad Absetz (1983)
Encyclopaedia of Modern Murder (1983) (with Donald Seaman)
Lord of the Underworld: Jung and the Twentieth Century (1984)
The Psychic Detectives: The Story of Psychometry and Paranormal Crime Detection (1984)
A Criminal History of Mankind (1984)
Jack the Ripper: Summing Up and Verdict (1984)
The Bicameral Critic (1985)
Rudolf Steiner: The Man and His Vision (1985)
Encyclopedia of Modern Murder 1962-1982 (1985)
After Life: Survival of the Soul (1985)
The Laurel and Hardy Theory of Consciousness (1986)
An essay on the new existentialism (1986)
An Encyclopedia of Scandal (1986) (with Donald Seaman)
Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast (1987) (see Aleister Crowley)
The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries (1987) (with Damon Wilson)
Musician As Outsider (1987)
The Atlantis Blueprint: Unlocking the Ancient Mysteries of a Long-Lost Civilization (1987) (with Rand Flem-Ath)
Autobiographical reflections (1988)
The Mammoth Book of True Crime (1988)
The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders (1988)
The Sex Diary of a Metaphysician (1988)
Beyond the Occult (1988)
Written in Blood: Detectives and Detection (1989)
Written in Blood: A History of Forensic Detection (1989) (with Damon Wilson)
The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved (1989)
The Haunted Man: The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (1990) (see David Lindsay)
The Serial Killers: A Study in the Psychology of Violence (1990) (with Donald Seaman)
Existentially Speaking: Essays on the Philosophy of Literature (1990)
Written in Blood: The Trail and the Hunt (1991)
Hesse, Reich, Borges (1991) (see Jorge Luis Borges and Hermann Hesse)
Unsolved Mysteries (1992) (with Damon Wilson)
Written in Blood: The Criminal Mind and Method (1992)
Sex, America, and Other Insights (1992)
Colin Wilson's True Crime File: Murder in the 1930s (1992)
From Atlantis to the Sphinx: Recovering the Lost Wisdom of the Ancient World (1993)
Murder in the 1940s: Colin Wilson's True Crime File (1993)
A Plague of Murder (1995)
Weird News Stories (1996)
The Atlas of Holy Places and Sacred Sites (1996)
The Killers Among Us: Motives Behind Their Madness : Book I (1996)
Unexplained: UFOs and Aliens (1997)
The Killers Among Us: Sex, Madness and Mass Murder : Book II (1997)
Ghost Sightings: Strange but True Series (1997)
Strange Vanishings: Strange but True Series (1997)
Unexplained: Mysteries of the Universe (1997)
Alien Dawn: An Investigation into the Contact Experience (1998)
Unexplained: Ghosts and the Supernatural (1998)
The Corpse Garden (1998)
The Books in My Life (1998)
Change Your Life With Accelerated Visualization (1999)
The Mammoth Book of the History of Murder (2000)
Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors (2000)
The Mammoth Book of Illustrated True Crime (2001)
The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts: A Riveting Investigation Into Channeling and Spirit Guides (2001)
Dreaming to Some Purpose: The Autobiography of Colin Wilson (2004)
History of Murder (2004)
Scandal!: Private Stories of Public Shame (2004) (with Damon Wilson)
Crimes of Passion (2006) (with Damon Wilson)
The Encyclopedia of Crime (2006) (with Oliver Cyriax and Damon Wilson)
Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals: 100,000 Years of Lost History (2006)
Serial Killer Investigations: The Story of Forensics and Profiling Through the Hunt for the World's Worst Murderers (2006)
Manhunt: A Study in Detection: Tracking Serial Killers (2006)
The Angry Years (2007)
Murder Casebook (2008)
Anthologies containing stories by Colin Wilson
Short stories
| The Return of Lloigor (1969) | |||
| Return of the Lloigor |
Books about Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson recommends
The Dice Man (1971) Luke Rhinehart "Brilliant ... very impressive." |
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