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윌슨" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%94%D5%B8%D5%AC%D5%AB%D5%B6_%D5%88%D6%82%D5%AB%D5%AC%D5%BD%D5%B8%D5%B6" title="Քոլին Ուիլսոն – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Քոլին Ուիլսոն" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Wilson" title="Colin Wilson – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Colin Wilson" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Wilson" title="Colin Wilson – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" 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style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Outsider_(Colin_Wilson)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Outsider (Colin Wilson)">The Outsider</a></i></li><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Occult:_A_History" title="The Occult: A History">The Occult: A History</a></i></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Colin Henry Wilson</b> (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) was an English existentialist philosopher-novelist. He also wrote widely on <a href="/wiki/True_crime" title="True crime">true crime</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mysticism" title="Mysticism">mysticism</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Paranormal" title="Paranormal">paranormal</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> eventually writing more than a hundred books.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wilson called his philosophy "new <a href="/wiki/Existentialism" title="Existentialism">existentialism</a>" or "<a href="/wiki/Phenomenology_(philosophy)" title="Phenomenology (philosophy)">phenomenological</a> existentialism",<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and maintained his life work was "that of a philosopher, and (his) purpose to create a new and optimistic existentialism".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Colin_Wilson&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wilson was born on 26 June 1931 in <a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-IndepObit_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IndepObit-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the first child of Arthur and Annetta Wilson. His father worked in a shoe factory.<sup id="cite_ref-somepurpose_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-somepurpose-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the age of eleven he attended <a href="/wiki/Gateway_College" title="Gateway College">Gateway Secondary Technical School</a>, where his interest in science began to blossom. By the age of 14 he had compiled a multi-volume work of essays covering many aspects of science entitled <i>A Manual of General Science</i>. But by the time he left school at sixteen, his interests were already switching to literature. His discovery of <a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a>'s work, particularly <i><a href="/wiki/Man_and_Superman" title="Man and Superman">Man and Superman</a></i>, was a landmark. He started to write stories, plays, and essays in earnest – a long "sequel" to <i>Man and Superman</i> made him consider himself to be 'Shaw's natural successor.' After two unfulfilling jobs – one as a laboratory assistant at his old school – he drifted into the Civil Service, but found little to occupy his time. </p><p>In the autumn of 1949, he was conscripted into the Royal Air Force but soon found himself clashing with authority, eventually feigning homosexuality in order to be dismissed. Upon leaving he took up a succession of menial jobs, spent some time wandering around Europe, and finally returned to Leicester in 1951. There he married his first wife, (Dorothy) Betty Troop, and moved to London, where a son, Roderick Gerard, was born. He later wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, <i><a href="/wiki/Adrift_in_Soho" title="Adrift in Soho">Adrift in Soho</a></i>, that was based on his time in London. But the marriage rapidly disintegrated as he drifted in and out of several jobs. During this traumatic period, Wilson was continually working and reworking the novel that was eventually published as <i>Ritual in the Dark</i> (1960).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also met three young writers who became close friends – <a href="/wiki/Bill_Hopkins_(novelist)" title="Bill Hopkins (novelist)">Bill Hopkins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Holroyd" title="Stuart Holroyd">Stuart Holroyd</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Laura_Del-Rivo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Laura Del-Rivo (page does not exist)">Laura Del-Rivo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another trip to Europe followed, and he spent some time in Paris attempting to sell magazine subscriptions. Returning to Leicester again, he met Joy Stewart – later to become his second wife and mother of their three children – who accompanied him to London. There he continued to work on <i>Ritual in the Dark</i>, receiving some advice from <a href="/wiki/Angus_Wilson" title="Angus Wilson">Angus Wilson</a> (no relation) – then deputy superintendent of the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum_Reading_Room" title="British Museum Reading Room">British Museum's Reading Room</a> – and slept rough (in a sleeping bag) on <a href="/wiki/Hampstead_Heath" title="Hampstead Heath">Hampstead Heath</a> to save money.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On Christmas Day, 1954, alone in his room, he sat down on his bed and began to write in his journal. He described his feelings as follows: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>It struck me that I was in the position of so many of my favourite characters in fiction: <a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Fyodor Dostoyevsky">Dostoyevsky's</a> Raskolnikov, <a href="/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke" title="Rainer Maria Rilke">Rilke's</a> Malte Laurids Brigge, the young writer in <a href="/wiki/Knut_Hamsun" title="Knut Hamsun">Hamsun's</a> <i>Hunger</i>: alone in my room, feeling totally cut off from the rest of society. It was not a position I relished . . . Yet an inner compulsion had forced me into this position of isolation. I began writing about it in my journal, trying to pin it down. And then, quite suddenly, I saw that I had the makings of a book. I turned to the back of my journal and wrote at the head of the page: 'Notes for a book The Outsider in Literature'</p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Outsider"><i>The Outsider</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Colin_Wilson&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The Outsider"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Outsider_(Colin_Wilson)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Outsider (Colin Wilson)">The Outsider (Colin Wilson)</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Victor_Gollancz_Ltd" title="Victor Gollancz Ltd">Gollancz</a> published the 24-year-old Wilson's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Outsider_(Colin_Wilson)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Outsider (Colin Wilson)">The Outsider</a></i> in 1956. The work examines the role of the social "outsider" in seminal works by various key literary and cultural figures – such as <a href="/wiki/Albert_Camus" title="Albert Camus">Albert Camus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre" title="Jean-Paul Sartre">Jean-Paul Sartre</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway" title="Ernest Hemingway">Ernest Hemingway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hermann_Hesse" title="Hermann Hesse">Hermann Hesse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Fyodor Dostoyevsky">Fyodor Dostoyevsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_James" title="William James">William James</a>, <a href="/wiki/T._E._Lawrence" title="T. E. Lawrence">T. E. Lawrence</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vaslav_Nijinsky" title="Vaslav Nijinsky">Vaslav Nijinsky</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh" title="Vincent van Gogh">Vincent van Gogh</a> – and discusses Wilson's perception of <a href="/wiki/Social_alienation" title="Social alienation">social alienation</a> in their work. The book became a best-seller and helped popularise <a href="/wiki/Existentialism" title="Existentialism">existentialism</a> in Britain.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has never been out of print and has been translated into more than thirty languages. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Colin_Wilson&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-fiction_writing">Non-fiction writing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Colin_Wilson&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Non-fiction writing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wilson became associated with the "<a href="/wiki/Angry_young_men" title="Angry young men">angry young men</a>" of British literature. He contributed to <i><a href="/wiki/Declaration_(anthology)" title="Declaration (anthology)">Declaration</a></i>, an anthology of manifestos by writers associated with the movement, and was also anthologised in a popular paperback sampler, <i>Protest: The <a href="/wiki/Beat_Generation" title="Beat Generation">Beat Generation</a> and the Angry Young Men</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Maschler_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Maschler-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Feldman_and_Gartenberg_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Feldman_and_Gartenberg-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some viewed Wilson and his friends <a href="/wiki/Bill_Hopkins_(novelist)" title="Bill Hopkins (novelist)">Bill Hopkins</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Holroyd" title="Stuart Holroyd">Stuart Holroyd</a> as a sub-group of the "Angries", more concerned with "religious values" than with liberal or socialist politics.<sup id="cite_ref-Allsop_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Allsop-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Critics on the left swiftly labelled them as fascist; commentator <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Allsop" title="Kenneth Allsop">Kenneth Allsop</a> called them "the law givers".<sup id="cite_ref-Allsop_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Allsop-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Holroyd_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Holroyd-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Controversially, during the 1950s Wilson expressed critical support for some of the ideas of <a href="/wiki/Oswald_Mosley" title="Oswald Mosley">Oswald Mosley</a> the leader of <a href="/wiki/Union_Movement" title="Union Movement">Union Movement</a> and after Mosley's death in December 1980, Wilson contributed articles to Mosley's former secretary <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Hamm" title="Jeffrey Hamm">Jeffrey Hamm</a>'s <i>Lodestar</i> magazine.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The success of <i>The Outsider</i> notwithstanding, Wilson's second book, <i>Religion and the Rebel</i> (1957), was universally panned by critics although Wilson himself claimed it was a more comprehensive book than the first one. While <i>The Outsider</i> was focused on documenting the subject of mental strain and near-insanity, <i>Religion and the Rebel</i> was focused on how to expand our consciousness and transform us into visionaries. <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i> magazine published a review, headlined "Scrambled Egghead", that pilloried the book.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Undaunted, Wilson continued to expound his positive "new" existentialism in the six philosophical books known as "The Outsider Cycle", all written within the first ten years of his literary career. These books were summarised by <i>Introduction to the New Existentialism</i> (1966). When the book was re-printed in 1980 as <i>The New Existentialism</i>, Wilson wrote: "If I have contributed anything to <a href="/wiki/Existentialism" title="Existentialism">existentialism</a> – or, for that matter, to twentieth century thought in general, here it is. I am willing to stand or fall by it." </p><p>In <i>The Age of Defeat</i> (1959) – book 3 of "The Outsider Cycle" – he bemoaned the loss of the hero in twentieth century life and literature, convinced that we were becoming embroiled in what he termed "the fallacy of insignificance". It was this theory that encouraged celebrated American psychologist <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Maslow" title="Abraham Maslow">Abraham Maslow</a> to contact him in 1963. The two corresponded regularly and met on several occasions before Maslow's death in 1970. Wilson wrote a biography and assessment of Maslow's work, <i>New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution</i>, based on audiotapes that Maslow had provided, which was published in 1972. Maslow's observation of "peak experiences" in his students – those sudden moments of overwhelming happiness that we all experience from time to time – provided Wilson with an important clue in his search for the mechanism that might control the Outsider's "moments of vision". Maslow, however, was convinced that peak experiences could not be induced; Colin Wilson thought otherwise and, indeed, in later books like <i>Access to Inner Worlds</i> (1983) and <i>Super Consciousness</i> (2009), suggested how they could be induced at will. </p><p>Wilson was also known for what he termed "Existential Criticism", which suggested that a work of art should not just be judged by the principles of literary criticism or theory alone but also by what it has to say, in particular about the meaning and purpose of existence. In his pioneering essay for <i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Review" title="Chicago Review">Chicago Review</a></i> (Volume 13, no. 2, 1959, pp. 152–181) he wrote: </p> <blockquote><p>No art can be judged by purely aesthetic standards, although a painting or a piece of music may appear to give a purely aesthetic pleasure. Aesthetic enjoyment is an intensification of the vital response, and this response forms the basis of all value judgements. The existentialist contends that all values are connected with the problems of human existence, the stature of man, the purpose of life. These values are inherent in all works of art, in addition to their aesthetic values, and are closely connected with them.</p></blockquote> <p>He went on to write several more essays and books on the subject. Among the latter were <i>The Strength to Dream</i> (1962), <i>Eagle and Earwig</i> (1965), <i>Poetry and Mysticism</i> (1970) <i>The Craft of the Novel</i> (1975), <i>The Bicameral Critic</i> (1985) and <i>The Books in My Life</i> (1998). He also applied existential criticism to many of the hundreds of book reviews he wrote for journals including <i>Books & Bookmen</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Literary_Review" title="The Literary Review">The Literary Review</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_London_Magazine" title="The London Magazine">The London Magazine</a></i>, <i>John O'London's</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Spectator" title="The Spectator">The Spectator</a></i> and <i>The Aylesford Review</i> throughout his career. Some of these were gathered together in a book entitled <i>Existential Criticism: Selected Book Reviews</i>, published in 2009. </p><p>Meanwhile, the prolific Wilson found time to write about other subjects that interested him, even on occasion when his level of expertise might be questionable. The title of his opinionated 1964 volume on music appreciation, <i>Brandy of the Damned</i>, inspired by his enthusiasm for record collecting,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> used for its title a self-deprecating reference from the onetime music critic Bernard Shaw. The full quote (from <i>Man and Superman</i>) is: "Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?” </p><p>By the late 1960s Wilson had become increasingly interested in <a href="/wiki/Metaphysics" title="Metaphysics">metaphysical</a> and <a href="/wiki/Occult" title="Occult">occult</a> themes. In 1971, he published <i><a href="/wiki/The_Occult:_A_History" title="The Occult: A History">The Occult: A History</a></i>, featuring <a href="/wiki/Exegesis" title="Exegesis">interpretations</a> on <a href="/wiki/Aleister_Crowley" title="Aleister Crowley">Aleister Crowley</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Gurdjieff" title="George Gurdjieff">George Gurdjieff</a>, <a href="/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky" title="Helena Blavatsky">Helena Blavatsky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kabbalah" title="Kabbalah">Kabbalah</a>, primitive <a href="/wiki/Magic_(paranormal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic (paranormal)">magic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Franz_Mesmer" title="Franz Mesmer">Franz Mesmer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin" title="Grigori Rasputin">Grigori Rasputin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Dunglas_Home" title="Daniel Dunglas Home">Daniel Dunglas Home</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paracelsus" title="Paracelsus">Paracelsus</a>, among others. He also wrote a markedly unsympathetic biography of Crowley, <i>Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast</i>, and has written biographies on other spiritual and psychological <a href="/wiki/Visionary" title="Visionary">visionaries</a>, including Gurdjieff, <a href="/wiki/Carl_Jung" title="Carl Jung">Carl Jung</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich" title="Wilhelm Reich">Wilhelm Reich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner" title="Rudolf Steiner">Rudolf Steiner</a>, and <a href="/wiki/P._D._Ouspensky" title="P. D. Ouspensky">P. D. Ouspensky</a>. </p><p>Originally, Wilson focused on the cultivation of what he called "Faculty X", which he saw as leading to an increased sense of <a href="/wiki/Meaning_(existential)" title="Meaning (existential)">meaning</a>, and on abilities such as <a href="/wiki/Telepathy" title="Telepathy">telepathy</a> and the awareness of other <a href="/wiki/Energy_(psychological)" title="Energy (psychological)">energies</a>. In his later work he suggests the possibility of <a href="/wiki/Afterlife" title="Afterlife">life after death</a> and the existence of spirits, which he personally analyses as an active member of <a href="/wiki/The_Ghost_Club" title="The Ghost Club">the Ghost Club</a>. </p><p>He also wrote non-fiction books on crime, ranging from encyclopedias to studies of <a href="/wiki/Serial_killing" class="mw-redirect" title="Serial killing">serial killing</a>. He had an ongoing interest in the life and times of <a href="/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper" title="Jack the Ripper">Jack the Ripper</a> and in <a href="/wiki/Sex_crime" class="mw-redirect" title="Sex crime">sex crime</a> in general. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fiction">Fiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Colin_Wilson&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Fiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wilson explored his ideas on <a href="/wiki/Aptitude" title="Aptitude">human potential</a> and consciousness in fiction, mostly <a href="/wiki/Detective_fiction" title="Detective fiction">detective fiction</a> or science fiction, including several <a href="/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos" title="Cthulhu Mythos">Cthulhu Mythos</a> pieces; often writing a non-fiction work and a novel concurrently – as a way of putting his ideas into action. He wrote: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>For me [fiction] is a manner of philosophizing....Philosophy may be only a shadow of the reality it tries to grasp, but the novel is altogether more satisfactory. I am almost tempted to say that no philosopher is qualified to do his job unless he is also a novelist....I would certainly exchange any of the works of <a href="/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead" title="Alfred North Whitehead">Whitehead</a> or <a href="/wiki/Wittgenstein" class="mw-redirect" title="Wittgenstein">Wittgenstein</a> for the novels they ought to have written.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Like some of his non-fiction work, many of Wilson's novels from <i>Ritual in the Dark</i> (1960) onwards have been concerned with the psychology of murder—especially that of serial killing. However, he has also written science fiction of a philosophical bent, including <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mind_Parasites" title="The Mind Parasites">The Mind Parasites</a></i> (1967), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Philosopher%27s_Stone_(novel)" title="The Philosopher's Stone (novel)">The Philosopher's Stone</a></i> (1969), <i><a href="/wiki/The_Space_Vampires" title="The Space Vampires">The Space Vampires</a></i> (1976) and the four-volume <i>Spider-World</i> series: <i><a href="/wiki/Spider_World:_The_Tower" class="mw-redirect" title="Spider World: The Tower">Spider World: The Tower</a></i> (1987), <i><a href="/wiki/Spider_World:_the_Delta" class="mw-redirect" title="Spider World: the Delta">Spider World: the Delta</a></i> (1987), <i>Spider World: The Magician</i> (1992) and <i>Spider World: Shadowland</i> (2003); novels described by one critic as "an artistic achievement of the highest order... destined to be regarded to be one of the central products of the twentieth century imagination."<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wilson wrote the <i>Spider World</i> series in response to a suggestion made to him by Roald Dahl to 'write a novel for children.' He also said he'd 'like to be remembered as the man who wrote <i>Spider World.’</i> </p><p>In <i>The Strength to Dream</i> (1961) Wilson attacked <a href="/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft" title="H. P. Lovecraft">H. P. Lovecraft</a> as "sick" and as "a bad writer" who had "rejected reality"—but he grudgingly praised Lovecraft's story "<a href="/wiki/The_Shadow_Out_of_Time" title="The Shadow Out of Time">The Shadow Out of Time</a>" as capable science fiction. <a href="/wiki/August_Derleth" title="August Derleth">August Derleth</a>, incensed by Wilson's treatment of Lovecraft in <i>The Strength to Dream</i>, then dared Wilson to write what became <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mind_Parasites" title="The Mind Parasites">The Mind Parasites</a></i>—to expound his philosophical ideas in the guise of fiction.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the preface to <i>The Mind Parasites</i>, Wilson concedes that Lovecraft, "far more than Hemingway or <a href="/wiki/William_Faulkner" title="William Faulkner">Faulkner</a>, or even <a href="/wiki/Kafka" class="mw-redirect" title="Kafka">Kafka</a>, is a symbol of the outsider-artist in the 20th century" and asks: "what would have happened if Lovecraft had possessed a private income—enough, say, to allow him to spend his winters in Italy and his summers in Greece or Switzerland?" answering that in his [Wilson's] opinion "[h]e would undoubtedly have produced less, but what he did produce would have been highly polished, without the pulp magazine cliches that disfigure so much of his work. And he would have given free rein to his love of curious and remote erudition, so that his work would have been, in some respect, closer to that of <a href="/wiki/Anatole_France" title="Anatole France">Anatole France</a> or the contemporary Argentinian writer <a href="/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges" title="Jorge Luis Borges">Jorge Luis Borges</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wilson also discusses Lovecraft in <i>Order of Assassins</i> (1972) and in the prefatory note to <i>The Philosopher's Stone</i> (1969). His short novel <i>The Return of the Lloigor</i> (1969/1974) also has roots in the Cthulhu Mythos – its central character works on the real book the <a href="/wiki/Voynich_manuscript" title="Voynich manuscript">Voynich manuscript</a>, but discovers it to be a mediaeval Arabic version of the <i><a href="/wiki/Necronomicon" title="Necronomicon">Necronomicon</a></i> – as does his 2002 novel <i>The Tomb of the Old Ones</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adaptations">Adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Colin_Wilson&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Tobe_Hooper" title="Tobe Hooper">Tobe Hooper</a> directed the film <i><a href="/wiki/Lifeforce_(film)" title="Lifeforce (film)">Lifeforce</a></i>, an adaptation written by <a href="/wiki/Dan_O%27Bannon" title="Dan O'Bannon">Dan O'Bannon</a> based on Wilson's novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Space_Vampires" title="The Space Vampires">The Space Vampires</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After its release, Colin Wilson recalled that author <a href="/wiki/John_Fowles" title="John Fowles">John Fowles</a> regarded the <a href="/wiki/The_Magus_(film)" title="The Magus (film)">film adaptation</a> of Fowles' own novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Magus_(novel)" title="The Magus (novel)">The Magus</a></i> as the worst film adaptation of a novel ever. Wilson told Fowles there was now a worse one.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A film of his 1961 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Adrift_in_Soho" title="Adrift in Soho">Adrift in Soho</a></i> by director Pablo Behrens was released by Burning Films in 2018 with a score by Anthony Reynolds. </p><p>In 2023 a comprehensive six part series of films was completed, giving a detailed look at Wilson's life and career. The series is called "Colin Wilson: His Life and Work" and was produced and directed by Jason Figgis, co produced by John West, Martha Rafferty, Nabil Dalle, Lynn Porfirio and Patrick Bergin in association with The Colin Wilson Estate. </p><p>This series will be available for download and streaming early in 2025. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Illness_and_death">Illness and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Colin_Wilson&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Illness and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After a major spinal operation in 2011,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wilson suffered a stroke and lost his ability to speak.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was admitted to hospital in October 2013 for pneumonia. He died on 5 December 2013 and was buried in the churchyard at <a href="/wiki/Gorran_Churchtown" title="Gorran Churchtown">Gorran Churchtown</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cornwall" title="Cornwall">Cornwall</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-IndepObit_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IndepObit-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A memorial service for him was held at <a href="/wiki/St_James%27s_Church,_Piccadilly" title="St James's Church, Piccadilly">St James's Church, Piccadilly</a>, London, on 14 October 2014. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Colin_Wilson&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Howard F. Dossor, author of a book about Wilson's career, wrote appreciatively: "Wilson constitutes one of the most significant challenges to twentieth-century critics. It seems most likely that critics analysing his work in the middle of the twenty-first century, will be puzzled that his contemporaries paid such inadequate attention to him. But it is not merely for their sake that he should be examined. Critics who turn to him will find themselves involved in the central questions of our age and will be in touch with a mind that has disclosed an extraordinary resilience in addressing them."<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Critic Nicolas Tredell agreed: "The twenty-first century may look back on Colin Wilson as one of the novelists who foresaw the future of fiction, and something, perhaps, of the future of man."<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Science writer <a href="/wiki/Martin_Gardner" title="Martin Gardner">Martin Gardner</a> saw Wilson as an intelligent writer who was duped by <a href="/wiki/Paranormal" title="Paranormal">paranormal</a> claims. He once commented that "Colin bought it all. With unparalleled egotism and scientific ignorance he believed almost everything he read about the paranormal, no matter how outrageous." Gardner described Wilson's book <i>The Geller Phenomenon</i> as "the most gullible book ever written about the <a href="/wiki/Uri_Geller" title="Uri Geller">Israeli charlatan</a>". Gardner concluded that Wilson had decayed into an "occult eccentric" writing books for the "lunatic fringe".<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The psychologist <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Rowe" title="Dorothy Rowe">Dorothy Rowe</a> gave Wilson's book <i>Men of Mystery</i> a negative review and wrote that it "does nothing to advance research into the paranormal".<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Radford" title="Benjamin Radford">Benjamin Radford</a> has written that Wilson had a "bias toward mystery-mongering" and that he ignored scientific and skeptical arguments on some of the topics he wrote about. Radford described Wilson's book <i>The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved</i> as "riddled with errors and obfuscating omissions, betraying a bizarre disregard for accuracy".<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2016 the first full-length biography of Wilson, <i><a href="/wiki/Beyond_the_Robot" title="Beyond the Robot">Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson</a></i>, by <a href="/wiki/Gary_Lachman" title="Gary Lachman">Gary Lachman</a>, appeared. It received a positive endorsement from <a href="/wiki/Philip_Pullman" title="Philip Pullman">Philip Pullman</a>, who wrote that "Wilson was always far better and more interesting than fashionable opinion claimed, and in Lachman he has found a biographer who can respond to the whole range of his work with sympathy and understanding, in a style which, like Wilson's own, is always immensely readable." <a href="/wiki/Michael_Dirda" title="Michael Dirda">Michael Dirda</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i> called Wilson a "controversial writer who explored the nature of human consciousness in dozens of books" and said that Lachman, a "leading student of the <a href="/wiki/Western_esoteric_tradition" class="mw-redirect" title="Western esoteric tradition">western esoteric tradition</a>, writes with "exceptional grace, forcefulness, and clarity."<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Brett Taylor "enjoyed" the biography, but said that "a more critical author might have written a book that argued for the subject's worth in a broader and more convincing context. Lachman displays credulity on occult matters and an admiration for Wilson's sometimes dodgy philosophy."<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 1 July 2016, the First International Colin Wilson Conference took place at the University of Nottingham. A second conference took place at the same venue on 6 July 2018. The Third Conference was held in Nottingham on September 1-3, 2023 which included the premiere of the Figgis-West eight-part documentary film series <i>Colin Wilson: his life and work</i>. Directed and edited by <a href="/wiki/Jason_Figgis" title="Jason Figgis">Jason Figgis</a>, the documentary is a detailed study of Wilson's life and work which includes interviews with <a href="/wiki/Uri_Geller" title="Uri Geller">Uri Geller</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gary_Lachman" title="Gary Lachman">Gary Lachman</a>,<a href="/wiki/Tahir_Shah" title="Tahir Shah">Tahir Shah</a>, Damon Wilson, <a href="/wiki/Jason_Figgis" title="Jason Figgis">Jason Figgis</a>, John West, Martha Rafferty and <a href="/wiki/Philip_Pullman" title="Philip Pullman">Philip Pullman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wilson's archive is held at the Manuscripts and Special Collections Department at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. It contains the entirety of his published work plus manuscripts, correspondence and journals.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Colin_Wilson&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Colin_Wilson_bibliography" title="Colin Wilson bibliography">Colin Wilson bibliography</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Colin_Wilson&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 25em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25367040">"Colin Wilson, author of The Outsider, dies aged 82"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160104181122/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25367040">Archived</a> 4 January 2016 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <a href="/wiki/BBC_News" title="BBC News">BBC News</a>, 13 December 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2013.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Gary_Lachman" title="Gary Lachman">Gary Lachman</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Beyond_the_Robot" title="Beyond the Robot">Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson</a></i>, Penguin (2016), xiv</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=zdIC-XAQ-5IC&dq=%22phenomenological+existentialism%22+Wilson&pg=PA9"><i>Introduction to the New Existentialism</i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1966)</span>, p.9</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Quote from <i><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_Now" title="Philosophy Now">Philosophy Now</a></i>, Obituary of Colin Wilson, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://philosophynow.org/issues/101/Colin_Wilson_1931-2013">here (link)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160104181124/http://philosophynow.org/issues/101/Colin_Wilson_1931-2013">Archived</a> 4 January 2016 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, accessed March 2014.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-IndepObit-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-IndepObit_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-IndepObit_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFWilliamson2013" class="citation news cs1"><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Williamson" title="Marcus Williamson">Williamson, Marcus</a> (8 December 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/colin-wilson-author-8991678.html">"Colin Wilson: Author (Obituary)"</a>. <i>The Independent</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 January</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Independent&rft.atitle=Colin+Wilson%3A+Author+%28Obituary%29&rft.date=2013-12-08&rft.aulast=Williamson&rft.aufirst=Marcus&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fobituaries%2Fcolin-wilson-author-8991678.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AColin+Wilson" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-somepurpose-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-somepurpose_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Colin Wilson, <i>Dreaming to Some Purpose</i> (Arrow, 2005)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Colin Wilson's 'Ritual in the Dark' <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.londonfictions.com/colin-wilson-ritual-in-the-dark.html">"Colin Wilson: Ritual in the Dark"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160304184711/http://www.londonfictions.com/colin-wilson-ritual-in-the-dark.html">Archived</a> from the original on 4 March 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 February</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Colin+Wilson%3A+Ritual+in+the+Dark&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.londonfictions.com%2Fcolin-wilson-ritual-in-the-dark.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AColin+Wilson" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Laura Del Rivo 'The Furnished Room' <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.londonfictions.com/laura-del-rivo-the-furnished-room.html">"Laura Del-Rivo: The Furnished Room"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160329151312/http://www.londonfictions.com/laura-del-rivo-the-furnished-room.html">Archived</a> from the original on 29 March 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 June</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Laura+Del-Rivo%3A+The+Furnished+Room&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.londonfictions.com%2Flaura-del-rivo-the-furnished-room.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AColin+Wilson" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Desert Island Discs Archive: 1976–1980</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Allsop" title="Kenneth Allsop">Kenneth Allsop</a>, <i>The Angry Decade; A Survey of the Cultural Revolt of the Nineteen Fifties</i>. London: Peter Owen Ltd.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Maschler-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Maschler_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMaschler,_Tom1957" class="citation book cs1">Maschler, Tom, ed. (1957). <i><span></span></i>Declaration<i><span></span></i>. London: MacGibbon and Kee.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Declaration&rft.place=London&rft.pub=MacGibbon+and+Kee&rft.date=1957&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AColin+Wilson" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Feldman_and_Gartenberg-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Feldman_and_Gartenberg_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFeldmanGartneberg1958" class="citation book cs1">Feldman, Gene; Gartneberg, Max, eds. (1958). <i><span></span></i>Protest: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men<i><span></span></i>. New York: Citadel Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Protest%3A+The+Beat+Generation+and+the+Angry+Young+Men&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Citadel+Press&rft.date=1958&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AColin+Wilson" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Allsop-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Allsop_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Allsop_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAllsop,_Kenneth1958" class="citation book cs1">Allsop, Kenneth (1958). <i><span></span></i>The Angry Decade; A Survey of the Cultural Revolt of the Nineteen Fifties<i><span></span></i>. London: Peter Owen Ltd.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Angry+Decade%3B+A+Survey+of+the+Cultural+Revolt+of+the+Nineteen+Fifties&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Peter+Owen+Ltd&rft.date=1958&rft.au=Allsop%2C+Kenneth&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AColin+Wilson" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Holroyd-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Holroyd_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHolroyd,_Stuart1975" class="citation book cs1">Holroyd, Stuart (1975). <i><span></span></i>Contraries: A Personal Progression<i><span></span></i>. London: The Bodley Head Ltd.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Contraries%3A+A+Personal+Progression&rft.place=London&rft.pub=The+Bodley+Head+Ltd&rft.date=1975&rft.au=Holroyd%2C+Stuart&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AColin+Wilson" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Skidelsky, Robert <i>Oswald Mosley</i> p.503, p.511, <i>Lodestar</i> No.1-Winter 1985/86, No.4-Autumn/Winter 1986, No.7-Winter 1987/88, No.8-Spring 1988, No.9-Summer 1988, No.11-Spring 1989, No.12-Summer 1989</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Colin Wilson, <i>The Angry Years</i> Robson Books, 2007</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ericsams.org/index.php/music-reviews/history-and-aesthetics-of-music/757-colin-wilson-on-music">Eric Sams. 'Colin Wilson on Music' in <i>The Musical Times</i>, April 1967, p 329-330</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Voyage to a Beginning</i> (Cecil Woolf, 1968, p. 160-1)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Howard F Dossor: <i>Colin Wilson: the man and his mind</i>, Element, 1990, p. 284</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilson2005" class="citation book cs1">Wilson, Colin (2005). <i>The Mind Parasites (original preface)</i>. Monkfish. p. xvii. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0974935999" title="Special:BookSources/0974935999"><bdi>0974935999</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Mind+Parasites+%28original+preface%29&rft.pages=xvii&rft.pub=Monkfish&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=0974935999&rft.aulast=Wilson&rft.aufirst=Colin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AColin+Wilson" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilson1975" class="citation book cs1">Wilson, Colin (1975). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Parasites-Colin-Wilson/dp/B000WU0PP8"><i>The Mind Parasites</i></a>. Oneiric Press. p. 112.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Mind+Parasites&rft.pages=112&rft.pub=Oneiric+Press&rft.date=1975&rft.aulast=Wilson&rft.aufirst=Colin&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMind-Parasites-Colin-Wilson%2Fdp%2FB000WU0PP8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AColin+Wilson" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMitchell2001" class="citation book cs1">Mitchell, Charles P. (2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=bmmrKvOwa_IC&q=%22space+vampires%22+lifeforce&pg=PA112"><i>A guide to apocalyptic cinema</i></a>. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 112. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780313315275" title="Special:BookSources/9780313315275"><bdi>9780313315275</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+guide+to+apocalyptic+cinema&rft.pages=112&rft.pub=Greenwood+Publishing+Group&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=9780313315275&rft.aulast=Mitchell&rft.aufirst=Charles+P.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DbmmrKvOwa_IC%26q%3D%2522space%2Bvampires%2522%2Blifeforce%26pg%3DPA112&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AColin+Wilson" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilson2005" class="citation book cs1">Wilson, Colin (2005). <i>Dreaming to Some Purpose</i>. Monkfish. p. chapter 20. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0099471477" title="Special:BookSources/0099471477"><bdi>0099471477</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dreaming+to+Some+Purpose&rft.pages=chapter+20&rft.pub=Monkfish&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=0099471477&rft.aulast=Wilson&rft.aufirst=Colin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AColin+Wilson" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140323191858/http://www.colinwilsonworld.co.uk/Pages/News.aspx">"COLIN WILSON DIES AT 82"</a>. <i>Colin Wilson World</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.colinwilsonworld.co.uk/Pages/News.aspx">the original</a> on 23 March 2014.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Colin+Wilson+World&rft.atitle=COLIN+WILSON+DIES+AT+82&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.colinwilsonworld.co.uk%2FPages%2FNews.aspx&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AColin+Wilson" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thequietus.com/articles/09789-anthony-rey%C2%ADnolds-colin-wilson-interview">"The Quietus – Anthony Reynolds Discusses Colin Wilson"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">11 April</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Quietus+%E2%80%93+Anthony+Reynolds+Discusses+Colin+Wilson&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fthequietus.com%2Farticles%2F09789-anthony-rey%25C2%25ADnolds-colin-wilson-interview&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AColin+Wilson" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Howard F. Dossor <i>Colin Wilson: the Man and His Mind</i> (1990) Element Books, pp 318–319. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85230-176-7" title="Special:BookSources/1-85230-176-7">1-85230-176-7</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Nicolas Tredell <i>Novels to Some Purpose: the fiction of Colin Wilson</i> (2015) Paupers' Press, . <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780956866363" title="Special:BookSources/9780956866363">9780956866363</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Gardner" title="Martin Gardner">Gardner, Martin</a> (1984). <i>Order and Surprise</i>. Oxford University Press. pp. 361–364. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-286051-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-286051-8">0-19-286051-8</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRowe,_Dorothy1981" class="citation news cs1"><a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Rowe" title="Dorothy Rowe">Rowe, Dorothy</a> (26 January 1981). "Men of mystery". <i>New Scientist</i>. London. pp. 231–232.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+Scientist&rft.atitle=Men+of+mystery&rft.pages=231-232&rft.date=1981-01-26&rft.au=Rowe%2C+Dorothy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AColin+Wilson" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Radford" title="Benjamin Radford">Radford, Benjamin</a> (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.centerforinquiry.net/blogs/entry/colin_wilson_a_case_study_in_mystery_mongering/">"Colin Wilson: A Case Study in Mystery Mongering"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160327072616/http://www.centerforinquiry.net/blogs/entry/colin_wilson_a_case_study_in_mystery_mongering/">Archived</a> 27 March 2016 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. Center for Inquiry. Retrieved 16 March 2014.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Ufos, alien abductions, the occult: to one man, the building blocks of scholarship" Michael Dirda <i>The Washington Post</i> 31 August 2016.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTaylor2018" class="citation journal cs1">Taylor, Brett (2018). "Colin Wilson's Idiosyncratic Literary Legacy". <i><a href="/wiki/Skeptical_Inquirer" title="Skeptical Inquirer">Skeptical Inquirer</a></i>. <b>42</b> (2): 54–56.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Skeptical+Inquirer&rft.atitle=Colin+Wilson%27s+Idiosyncratic+Literary+Legacy&rft.volume=42&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=54-56&rft.date=2018&rft.aulast=Taylor&rft.aufirst=Brett&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AColin+Wilson" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pauperspress.co.uk/conference.html">"Colin Wilson Conference"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Colin+Wilson+Conference&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fpauperspress.co.uk%2Fconference.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AColin+Wilson" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mss-cat.nottingham.ac.uk/CalmView/Overview.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&q=Related_Name_Code:NA78779">"Colin Wilson Archive"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Colin+Wilson+Archive&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fmss-cat.nottingham.ac.uk%2FCalmView%2FOverview.aspx%3Fsrc%3DCalmView.Catalog%26q%3DRelated_Name_Code%3ANA78779&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AColin+Wilson" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Colin_Wilson&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Bendau, Clifford P. <i>Colin Wilson: The Outsider and Beyond</i> (1979), San Bernardino: Borgo Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-89370-229-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-89370-229-3">0-89370-229-3</a></li> <li>Campion, Sidney R. <i>The Sound Barrier: a study of the ideas of Colin Wilson</i> (2011), Nottingham: Paupers' Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-946650-81-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-946650-81-0">0-946650-81-0</a></li> <li>Coulthard, Philip. <i>The Lurker at the Indifference Threshold: Feral Phenomenology for the 21st Century</i> (2019) Nottingham: Paupers' Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780995597822" title="Special:BookSources/9780995597822">9780995597822</a></li> <li>Dalgleish, Tim <i>The Guerilla Philosopher: Colin Wilson and Existentialism</i> (1993), Nottingham: Paupers' Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-946650-47-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-946650-47-0">0-946650-47-0</a></li> <li>Dossor, Howard F. <i>Colin Wilson: the bicameral critic: selected shorter writings</i> (1985), Salem: Salem House <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-88162-047-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-88162-047-5">0-88162-047-5</a></li> <li>Dossor, Howard F. <i>Colin Wilson: the man and his mind</i> (1990) Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element Books <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85230-176-7" title="Special:BookSources/1-85230-176-7">1-85230-176-7</a></li> <li>Dossor, Howard F. <i>The Philosophy of Colin Wilson: three perspectives</i> (1996), Nottingham: Paupers' Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-946650-58-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-946650-58-6">0-946650-58-6</a></li> <li>Greenwell, Tom. <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Chepstow_Road,_Inner_London&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Chepstow Road, Inner London (page does not exist)">Chepstow Road</a>: a literary comedy in two acts</i> (2002) Nottingham: Paupers' Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-946650-78-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-946650-78-0">0-946650-78-0</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Lachman" title="Gary Lachman">Lachman, Gary</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Beyond_the_Robot" title="Beyond the Robot">Beyond the Robot: the life and work of Colin Wilson</a></i> (2016) New York: TarcherPerigee <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780399173080" title="Special:BookSources/9780399173080">9780399173080</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Lachman" title="Gary Lachman">Lachman, Gary</a>. <i>Two essays on Colin Wilson</i> (1994), Nottingham: Paupers' Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-946650-52-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-946650-52-7">0-946650-52-7</a></li> <li>Moorhouse, John & Newman, Paul. <i>Colin Wilson, two essays</i> (1988), Nottingham: Paupers' Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-946650-11-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-946650-11-X">0-946650-11-X</a></li> <li>Newman, Paul. <i>Murder as an Antidote for Boredom: the novels of Laura Del Rivo, Colin Wilson and Bill Hopkins</i> (1996), Nottingham: Paupers' Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-946650-57-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-946650-57-8">0-946650-57-8</a></li> <li>Rapatahana, Vaughan. <i>More than the Existentialist Outsider: reflections on the work of Colin Wilson</i> (2019), Nottingham: Paupers' Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780995597839" title="Special:BookSources/9780995597839">9780995597839</a></li> <li>Robertson, Vaughan. <i>Wilson as Mystic</i> (2001), Nottingham: Paupers' Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-946650-74-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-946650-74-8">0-946650-74-8</a></li> <li>Salwak, Dale (ed). <i>Interviews with Britain's Angry Young Men</i> (1984) San Bernardino: Borgo Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-89370-259-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-89370-259-5">0-89370-259-5</a></li> <li>Shand, John & Lachman, Gary. <i>Colin Wilson as Philosopher</i> (1996), Nottingham: Paupers' Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-946650-59-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-946650-59-4">0-946650-59-4</a></li> <li>Smalldon, Jeffrey. <i>Human Nature Stained: Colin Wilson and the existential study of modern murder</i> (1991) Nottingham: Paupers'Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-946650-28-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-946650-28-4">0-946650-28-4</a></li> <li>Spurgeon, Brad. <i>Colin Wilson: philosopher of optimism</i>, (2006), Manchester: Michael Butterworth <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-9552672-0-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-9552672-0-X">0-9552672-0-X</a></li> <li>Stanley, Colin <i>An Evolutionary Leap: Colin Wilson and Psychology</i>, (2016), London: Karnac <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781782204442" title="Special:BookSources/9781782204442">9781782204442</a></li> <li>Stanley, Colin (ed). <i>Around the Outsider: essays presented to Colin Wilson on the occasion of his 80th birthday</i>, (2011), Winchester: O-Books <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84694-668-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84694-668-4">978-1-84694-668-4</a></li> <li>Stanley, Colin (ed). <i>Colin Wilson, a celebration: essays and recollections</i> (1988), London: Cecil Woolf <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-900821-91-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-900821-91-4">0-900821-91-4</a></li> <li>Stanley, Colin. <i>The Ultimate Colin Wilson Bibliography 1956–2015</i> (2015) Nottingham: Paupers' Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780956866356" title="Special:BookSources/9780956866356">9780956866356</a></li> <li>Stanley, Colin. <i>Colin Wilson's Existential Literary Criticism: a guide for students</i> (2014). Nottingham: Paupers' Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780956866349" title="Special:BookSources/9780956866349">9780956866349</a></li> <li>Stanley, Colin. <i>Colin Wilson's 'Occult Trilogy': a guide for students</i> (2013). Alresford: Axis Mundi Books. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781846947063" title="Special:BookSources/9781846947063">9781846947063</a></li> <li>Stanley, Colin. <i>Colin Wilson's 'Outsider Cycle': a guide for students</i> (2009). Nottingham: Paupers' Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-946650-96-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-946650-96-9">0-946650-96-9</a></li> <li>Stanley, Colin. <i>The Nature of Freedom' and other essays</i> (1990), Nottingham: Paupers' Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-946650-17-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-946650-17-9">0-946650-17-9</a></li> <li>Stanley, Colin (ed). <i>Proceedings of the First International Colin Wilson Conference, University of Nottingham, July 1, 2016</i> (2017) Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781443881722" title="Special:BookSources/9781443881722">9781443881722</a></li> <li>Stanley, Colin (ed). <i>Reflections on the work of Colin Wilson: Proceedings of the Second International Colin Wilson Conference, University of Nottingham July 6-8, 2018</i> (2019). Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-5275-2774-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-5275-2774-4">978-1-5275-2774-4</a></li> <li>Stanley, Colin (ed). <i>The Sage of Tetherdown: Recollections of Colin Wilson by his friends</i> (2020) Nottingham: Paupers' Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780995597884" title="Special:BookSources/9780995597884">9780995597884</a></li> <li>Stanley, Colin. <i>The Writing of Colin Wilson's 'Adrift in Soho'</i> (2016) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780956866370" title="Special:BookSources/9780956866370">9780956866370</a></li> <li>Tredell, Nicolas. <i>The Novels of Colin Wilson</i> (1982) London: Vision Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-85478-035-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-85478-035-1">0-85478-035-1</a></li> <li>Tredell, Nicolas. <i>Novels to Some Purpose: the fiction of Colin Wilson</i> (2015) Nottingham: Paupers' Press <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780956866363" title="Special:BookSources/9780956866363">9780956866363</a></li> <li>Trowell, Michael. <i>Colin Wilson, the positive approach</i> (1990), Nottingham: 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title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Riverside" title="University of California, Riverside">University of California, Riverside</a> Libraries. Includes correspondence by Wilson, galley proofs and manuscripts of Wilson's works in the science fiction genre, material regarding <a href="/wiki/Uri_Geller" title="Uri Geller">Uri Geller</a>, press clippings, and interviews with Wilson.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/news/2009/colinwilsoncollection.aspx">The Colin Wilson Collection at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom</a> – This is Wilson's bibliographer Colin Stanley's collection of books, articles, manuscripts, letters, photographs and assorted ephemera now at the University of Nottingham. Regularly updated by Stanley. Now contains, by arrangement with the Colin Wilson Estate, about 80 original manuscripts.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/guides/Playwrights">Colin Wilson Collection</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Harry_Ransom_Center" title="Harry Ransom Center">Harry Ransom Center</a>, University of Texas at Austin.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160819031940/http://www.colinwilsonworld.co.uk/">Colin Wilson World</a> – "an appreciation" with some Wilson contributions</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080914105229/http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jbmorgan/cwilson.html">The Colin Wilson Page</a> [1996 to 2001] at Internet Archive (archived 2008-09-14)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120716222613/http://abrax7.stormloader.com/">Abraxas</a>– Wilson-related journal</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://colinwilsononline.com/">The Phenomenology of Excess</a> – a multimedia Wilson site, approved by its subject</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1842468,00.html">Harry Ritchie, "Look back in wonder"</a>, <i>The Guardian</i> (reviews), 12 August 2006</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4748">Entry</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Literary_Encyclopedia" title="The Literary Encyclopedia">The Literary Encyclopedia</a></i> by Colin Stanley</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110824034443/http://pauper.stormloader.com/">Paupers' Press</a> – including the Centre for Colin Wilson Studies</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.londonfictions.com/colin-wilson-ritual-in-the-dark.html">An article by Colin Stanley on Wilson's debut novel, <i>Ritual in the Dark</i></a> at London Fictions</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.londonfictions.com/colin-wilson-adrift-in-soho.html">Colin Stanley on Wilson's <i>Adrift in Soho</i></a> at London Fictions</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?789">Colin Wilson</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Speculative_Fiction_Database" title="Internet Speculative Fiction Database">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/F/thefalllyrics/thefalldeerparklyrics.htm">Lyrics</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170729020627/http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/F/thefalllyrics/thefalldeerparklyrics.htm">Archived</a> 29 July 2017 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interviews">Interviews</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Colin_Wilson&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Interviews"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.poeticmind.co.uk/interviews-1/suddenly-awakened/">'Suddenly Awakened', interview for Poetic Mind.</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131207232507/http://www.sphinxradio.com/COLINWILSON92608.mp3">Audio Interview</a> by William H. Kennedy <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160207222826/http://www.sphinxradio.com/">Sphinx Radio</a>, 9/28/08</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070627211615/http://www.forteantimes.com/features/interviews/144/colin_wilson.html">Interview</a> by <a href="/wiki/Gary_Lachman" title="Gary Lachman">Gary Lachman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fortean_Times" title="Fortean Times">Fortean Times</a>, October 2004</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/17/books/17wils.html?pagewanted=all">Colin Wilson's August 2005 interview @ The New York Times</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.creelcommission.com/interviews.php?action=show&id=6&title=Colin+Wilson&date=08-08-2005">Creel Commission</a> Interview with Colin Wilson.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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