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 Colin Wilson
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[June 26, 1931 - ]

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Biography/Memoirs
Children
Fiction
Gerard Sorme Trilogy

  1. Ritual in the Dark (1960)

  2. Man Without a Shadow (1963)
    Aka Sex Diary of Gerard Sorme.

Spider World Series
Among the multitude of tiny life forms who share our planet, there is on that inspires fear by its mere existence. Imagine a world where such creatures are no longer small - where the few remaining humans must spend their lives in hiding or become servants of that which they most fear - creatures who use their terror-inspiring abilites to paralyze the minds of those who might oppose them. But one boy has the gift of seeing into the minds of other living things, disclosing them for what they are; and suddenly it is "the masters" who are afraid...

  1. The Tower (1987)

  2. The Delta (1987)

  3. The Magician (1992)

  4. Shadowland (2002)

Non-fiction

  • Manhunters: Criminal Profilers & Their Search for the World's Most Wanted Serial Killers (2007)

  • Serial Killer Investigations: The Story of Forensics And Profiling Through the Hunt for the World's Worst Murderers (2006)

  • The Angry Years: A Literary Chronicle  (2007)
    Colin Wilson's 1956 work The Outsider contributed largely to the popularization of existentialism in Britain and helped earn him the Angry Young Man label. Here he takes us on a journey back to this era, revealing fascinating and sometimes disturbing stories from the greats, including John Osborne, Kingsley Amis, Kenneth Tynan, and John Braine—to name but a few. Historically, the Angry Young Man movement gave birth to the satire movement of the 1960s—Beyond the Fringe, That Was the Week that Was, and Private Eye. Their irreverence aroused enthusiasm, and a new anti-establishment mood developed from Look Back in Anger and The Outsider. The story of that period makes a marvelously lively tale which, most importantly, was recorded by someone who was actually there.

  • Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals: 100,000 Years of Lost History (2006)
    The history of Neanderthal influence from Atlantis to the contemporary era

    • Provides evidence of Neanderthal man’s superior intelligence

    • Explores the unexplained scientific and architectural feats of ancient civilizations

    • Presents an alternative history of humankind since 7500 B.C. with an emphasis on esoteric traditions and the history of Christianity from the Essenes onward

    In Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals Colin Wilson presents evidence of a widespread Neanderthal civilization as the origin of sophisticated ancient knowledge. Examining remarkable archaeological discoveries that date back millennia, he suggests that civilization on Earth is far older than we have previously realized. Using this information as a springboard, Wilson then fills in the gaps in the past 100,000 years of human history, providing answers to previously unexplained scientific and architectural feats of ancient civilizations.

    Wilson shows that not only did Atlantis exist but that the civilizing force behind it was the Neanderthals. Far from being the violent brutes they are traditionally depicted as, Wilson shows that the Neanderthals had sophisticated mathematical and astrological knowledge, including an understanding of the precession of the equinoxes, and that they possessed advanced telepathic abilities akin to the “group consciousness” evident in flocks of birds and schools of fish. These abilities, he demonstrates, have been transmitted through the ages by the various keepers of the hermetic tradition--including the Templars, Freemasons, and other secret societies. In the course of his investigation, Wilson also finds new information about historical links between the Masonic tradition and the Essenes that indicate that America was “discovered” long before Columbus set sail and that Jesus actually survived crucifixion and fled to France with his wife Mary Magdalene.

  • Crimes of Passion: The Thin Line Between Love and Hate (2006)
    When passions run high, spurned lovers can act without a thought for the consequence. "Crimes of Passion" chronicles over 60 emotionally charged cases in which the heart ruled the head, invariably with fatal consequence.

  • The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Crime: A Photographic History (2002)
    Charles Manson, Bonnie and Clyde, O. J. Simpson, Serpico, Sirhan Sirhan, Timothy McVeigh, John Christie, Lorena Bobbit, Ruth Ellis, the Gang of Four, the Great Train Robbery, and the Hitler diaries—these are only thirteen of the many and manifold cases featured in this new, copiously illustrated Mammoth volume drawn from the annals of twentieth-century crime. Researched by editor Colin Wilson, an authority on crime and the criminal mind, and with access to the extensive resources of the international photo collection at the Hulton Getty Picture Library, the book offers more than 500 pages of unforgettable, and sometimes rare, images that cover a widely diverse range of subjects, from art theft to arson, from con men to cannibalism, from forensics to executions, from censorship to terrorists. As comprehensive in its scope as it is shocking in its photographic details, this illustrated chronicle brings dramatic immediacy to some of the most notorious events of the last century. One photo presents serial killer Dr. Marcel Petiot's stash of his forty-seven victims' clothes. Another image captures the attempted assassination of President Reagan, his Secret Service agents diving to protect him, while still another illustrates the heavy hand of justice with a body reeling from the bullets of the firing squad. Here, too, are photographs of victims, vital clues, grisly crime scenes, mass murders, sex scandals, gangsters, spies, and innumerable other subjects that arrest the eye and graphically illuminate the consequences of crime.

  • Qinmeartha and the Girl Child Lochi: The Tomb of the Old Ones (2002) with John Grant
    An uncomfortably disturbing tale of clashing realities by Hugo- and World Fantasy Award-winning author John Grant. The Tomb of the Old Ones A glorious neo-Lovecraftian tale, packed with fizzing ideas and told with all of Colin Wilson's customary speed and panache.

  • The Atlantis Blueprint: Unlocking the Ancient Mysteries of a Long-Lost Civilization (2000) with Rand Flem-Ath
    The Great Pyramid. Stonehenge. Machu Picchu. For centuries, these and other sacred sites have attracted pilgrims, scholars, and adventurers drawn by the possibility that their true spiritual and technological secrets remain hidden. Who could have built these elaborate monuments? How did they do it? And what were their incomprehensible efforts and sacrifices designed to accomplish?

    Now comes a revolutionary theory that connects these mysteries to reveal a hidden global pattern--the ancient work of an advanced civilization whose warnings of planetary cataclysm now reverberate across one hundred millennia. Here is startling evidence of an intelligent society dating back as much as 100,000 years--one that sailed the oceans of the world, building monuments to preserve and communicate its remarkable wisdom.

    The Atlantis Blueprint is the authors’ term for a complex network of connections between these sacred sites that trace back to Atlantis: a sophisticated maritime society that charted the globe from its home base in Antarctica...until it was obliterated by devastating global changes it anticipated but could not escape. Opening up a Pandora’s box of ancient mysteries, lost worlds, and millennial riddles, The Atlantis Blueprint is a story as controversial, fascinating, dangerous--and inspiring--as any ever told.

  • The Devil's Party: A History of Charlatan Messiahs (2000)
    Aka Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors .
    Taking David Koresh and the Waco incident as a starting point, this is an analytical look at the troubled history of charlatan messiahs around the world. Koresh was neither the first, nor the most excessive, nor even the most misguided of cult leaders.

  • Alien Dawn: An Investigation into the Contact Experience (1999)
    Alien Dawn describes Colin Wilson's attempt to make sense of a vast body of documented research involving strange and unexplained phenomena, including poltergeists, lake monsters, ancient folklore, time slips, out-of-body experiences, mystical awareness, and psychic travel to other worlds. The result is a vast, complex jigsaw puzzle of encyclopedic dimensions-the most comprehensive bird's-eye view of the subject ever undertaken, with conclusions that are sure to startle the reader.

  • The Books in My Life (1998)
    Wilson, who shares his home with over 20,000 books, pinpoints the books that have made a difference in his life and challenged him to learn.

  • An Extraordinary Man in the Age of Pigmies (1996)
    Colin Wilson on Henry Miller.

  • From Atlantis to the Sphinx (1996)
    In this compelling book, Colin Wilson argues that thousands of years before ancient Egypt and Greece held sway, there was a great civilization whose ships traveled the world from China to Antarctica. Their advanced knowledge of science, mathematics, and astronomy was passed on to the descendants who escaped to Egypt and South America.

    From Atlantis to the Sphinx bases this assertion on a true fact – that archaeologists and geologists are at odds over the age of the Sphinx. Archaeologists claim that the Sphinx dates to classical dynastic Egypt, around 2,400 B.C. But some geologists claim that it could have been built as early as 7,000 to 10,500 B.C. The geologists’ claim is based on the curious fact that the erosion of the Sphinx is more characteristic of water erosion than that of wind and sand.

    Starting from the assumption that there was an advanced civilization in existence much easier than previously thought, Wilson goes on to claim that it could very well be Atlantis – not a literal island that sank, but more of a great civilization that either declined naturally or experienced a great catastrophe, passing on only a fraction of its knowledge to other peoples. From Atlantis to the Sphinx delves into what might have been a completely different knowledge system from that of modern man – one as alien to us as that of the Martians. The book sets out to reconstruct that ancient knowledge in a fascinating exploration of the remote depths of history – a ground-breaking attempt to understand how these long-forgotten peoples thought, felt, and communicated with the universe.

  • Atlas Of Holy Places & Sacred Sites (1996)
    More than 1,000 religious and mystical sites are covered in this extensively illustrated guide. The significance and history of each locale is defined on stunning, state-of-the-art maps, revealing how humankind connects with its deepest beliefs.

  • A Plague of Murder (1995)
    Who are they? Where do they come from? Why do they do it? Serial killers are the headline-grabbing criminals of the modern world. With the body count rising, and shallow graves giving up their secrets, almost weekly new names join the list of terrifying murderers, already swollen with the 20th century's most notorious and fearsome criminals. Here are the full stories behind all the most infamous thrill killers: Jeffrey Dahmer, the monster of Milwaukee; Dennis Nilsen, who killed for company; Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker; Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, the Moors Murderers; Beverly Allitt; the Yorkshire Ripper and many more ...SALES POINTS: Join's Colin Wilson's World Famous Murders and the forthcoming Colin Wilson's World Famous Mysteries; The most shocking stories told by a master of true crime; A big read at a great price. THE AUTHOR Colin Wilson was hailed as a prodigy on publication of The Outsider in 1956. He has since become one of the world's leading Popular criminology writers, his previous books including Robinson's Mammoth Book of True Crime, Colin Wilson's World Famous Murders and the Colin Wilson's True Crime File series.

  • Unsolved Mysteries (1993) with Damon Wilson
    From the files of the untold, comes a series that brings to light the evil that lurks among us. Dramatizations of true, unsolved (at the date of broadcast) crimes-some grisly, some frightening, some supernatural.

  • The Strange Life of P. D. Ouspensky (1993)
    Ouspensky’s work on accessing a higher level of conciousness beyond everyday reality is a valuable legacy well worthy of consideration today.

    One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky was a complex and romantic soul. A promising young intellectual in Tsarist Russia, he won recognition as a novelist and philosopher, yet descended into self-chosen obscurity as a teacher of "the Work", the system of his great contemporary Gurdjieff. Today it is as Gurdjieff’s chief disciple that he is remembered, yet Colin Wilson argues convincingly that he is to be considered a major writer and man of genius in his own right.

    A nostalgic melancholy Russian, one of Ouspensky’s deepest instincts was that man can find his own salvation, yet towards the end of his turbulent life he lost faith in the System and drank himself to death. With sympathy and admiration, Colin Wilson throws new light on this gentle man and deep thinker.

  • Mozart's Journey to Prague (1992)
    See also Mozart's Journey to Prague: Playscript

  • The Serial Killers: A Study in the Psychology of Violence (1990)
    An ordinary family house in a quiet West Country town - 25 Cromwell Street, Glouster. Now known throughout the world as the House of Horror: The home of Fred and Rosemary West and the scene of one of the most shocking cases of serial murder England has ever seen. United by acts of unimaginable cruelty, the West's partnership was one of the most deadly in criminal history. And serial killers are increasing. Triggered by either sexual fantasies or a need to infilct pain and fear, their sadistic addiction to frenzied killing is the most horrifying of all crimes.But with the fromation of the world's first National Centre for the Analysis of Violent Crime in Virginia, made famous in the hugely popular Silence of the Lambs, the methods of tracking these elusive killers have been revolutionised.

  • The Decline and Fall of Leftism (1989)

  • Existentially Speaking: Essays on Philosophy and Literature (1989)

  • Written in Blood: A History of Forensic Detection (1989)
    In 44 B.C. a Roman doctor named Antistius performed the first autopsy recorded in history—on the corpse of murder victim Julius Caesar. However, not until the nineteenth century did the systematic application of scientific knowledge to crime detection seriously begin, so that the tiniest scrap of evidence might yield astonishing results—like the single horsehair that betrayed the sex murderer in New York’s 1936 Nancy Titterton case. In this massive and compelling history of forensic detection, the internationally recognized criminologist Colin Wilson charts the progress of criminalistics from the first attempts at detecting arsenic to the development of an impressive array of such modern techniques as ballistic analysis, blood typing, voice printing, textile analysis, psychological profiling, and genetic fingerprinting. Wilson also explores the alarmingly modern phenomenon of serial sex crime with a discussion of notorious cases that includes Jack the Ripper, Lucie Berlin, Mary Phagan, the Black Dahlia, Charles Manson, and Peter Sutcliffe, the so-called Yorkshire Ripper. Wilson shows how the continual sophistication of forensic detection and the introduction of computerized information retrieval has increasingly stacked the odds against the sex killer. Whatever the case, Written in Blood never fails to enlighten and intrigue.

  • An Essay on the 'New' Existentialism (1988)

  • Autobiographical Reflections (1988)

  • Beyond the Occult: Twenty Years' Research into the Paranormal (1988)
     Colin Wilson offers an examination of the mystical and paranormal. And what he has produced is amazing—a thoroughly convincing general theory of the occult. Wilson powerfully posits that our so-called “normal” experience may in fact be subnormal, and that evolution has brought us near the edge of a quantum leap into a hugely expanded human consciousness. Combining fascinating glimpses into the paranormal world with the latest scientific thinking on the nature of “physical reality,” he reveals the usually unseen powers of the human mind and discusses why he has become convinced that disembodied spirits do exist.

  • The Mammoth Book of True Crime (1988)
    With new chapters on serial killers, computer crime, cannibals, and conspiracy theories, the revised edition of this popular book presents hours of enthralling reading for the true-crime fans.

  • The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders (1988)
    An amazing investigation into the sexual perversities and preferences of modern-day society.

  • Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast (1987)
    Poet, Magician, Mountaineer, Polemicist and Pornographer, Aleister Crowley was the most famous, or infamous, name in twentieth century occultism. The popular image of him as, in the words of Francis King, "an insatiable sexual athlete, a pimp who lived on the immoral earnings of his girl-friends, and a junkie who daily took enough heroin to kill a roomful of people", has a basis in fact; but there were other, less obnoxious and despicable aspects of this highly original character.

    Crowley’s greatest legacy is his eclectic occult system: his Magick persists, a potent synthesis of Golden Dawn magic, oriental esoteric techniques, sexual magic, and the all-encompassing Law of Thelema with its two fundamental principles, "Every man and woman is a star" and the notorious "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be the Whole of the Law". With his usual flair and style, Colin Wilson brings this complex and enigmatic figure to life and provides an engrossing portrait of the self-styled Great Beast, the man whom the contemporary press dubbed The Wickedest Man in the World.

  • Jack the Ripper: Summing Up and Verdict (1987) with J. H. H. Gaute and Robin Odell

  • Marx Refuted. The Verdict of History  (1987), Colin Wilson and Ronald Duncan, eds.

  • The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries (1987) with Damon Wilson
    A treasure trove for armchair detectives. Examines oddities and raises questions about facts always taken for granted.

  • The Musician as Outsider (1987)

  • Scandal!: An encyclopedia (1986), Colin Wilson and Donald Seaman, eds.

  • Book of Great Mysteries (1986), Christopher Evans and Colin Wilson, eds.

  • The Laurel & Hardy Theory of Consciousness (1986)

  • Afterlife: AnIinvestigation of the Evidence for Life After Death (1985)

  • Rudolf Steiner: The Man and His Vision (1985)
    Of all the important thinkers of the twentieth century, Rudolph Steiner (1861-1925) is perhaps the most difficult to come to grips with. For the unprepared reader, his work presents a series of formidable obstacles, from the dauntingly abstract style to the often bizarre pronouncements on the nature of man and his cosmic destiny. And yet, Steiner was perhaps the most influential and charismatic occult philosopher of his generation and the movement he launched, Anthroposophy, with its educational, agricultural, and artistic applications, still has many thousands of followers worldwide. No one interested in esoteric thought can ignore Steiner, but until now there has been no genuinely accessible introduction to his ideas. This lucid and sympathetic account describes Steiner's development from shy scholar to the international figurehead of Anthroposophy, his break with Madam Blavatsky's Theosophy, his struggles to find a voice, and the essence of his insights into the supersensible world.

  • The Essential Colin Wilson (1985)

  • The Bicameral Critic (1985)

  • C. G. Jung: Lord of the Underworld (1984)
    Carl Gustav Jung is one of the seminal figures in the history of depth psychology. An enormously influential and original thinker, Jung was for some time Freud's principal disciple, but he became more and more critical of the Freudian emphasis on repressed sexual tendencies and after the publication of "Symbols of Transformation" in 1912, Jung broke away from Freud to develop his own technique of 'analytical psychology'. Jung's clinical work and, perhaps more importantly, his own experience of so-called occult phenomena led him to formulate and describe a number of key concepts, which have now passed into general currency, including the theory of archetypes; the collective unconscious; synchronicity; and the idea of 'active imagination, a technique of conscious dreaming. With characteristic fluency, Colin Wilson weaves a fascinating biographical narrative with a penetrating analysis of Jung's ideas, providing a clear, readable introduction to his life and work.

  • A Criminal History of Mankind (1984, 2005)
    Colin Wilson tells the story of human violence from Peking Man to the Mafia - taking into account the calculated sadism of the Assyrians, the opportunism of the Greek pirates, the brutality that made Rome the ‘razor king of the Mediterranean’, the mindless destruction of the Vandals, the mass slaughter of Genghis Khan, Tamurlane, Ivan the Terrible, Vlad the Impaler and more. Each age has a unique characteristic pattern of crime. In the past three centuries crime has changed and evolved until the sex killer and the mass murderer have become symbols of all that is worst about our civilization. But this is not just a study in human depravity; it is an attempt to place crime in perspective against human discovery, exploration and invention. The result is a completely new approach to the history and psychology of human violence.

  • The Psychic Detectives: The Story of Psychometry and Paranormal Crime Detection (1984)

  • Access to Inner Worlds: The Story of Brad Absetz (1983)
    A compelling study in right-brain awareness with practical methods for contacting the creative "other self" within us.
     Hardcover  Kindle Edition  Paperback

  • The Goblin Universe (1982) with Ted Holiday

  • The Quest for Wilhelm Reich: A Critical Biography (1982)

  • Anti-Sartre With an Essay on Camus (1981)

  • Witches (1981)
     Hardcover  Paperback

  • Poltergeist - A Study In Destructive Haunting (1981)

  • The Directory of Possibilities (1981), Colin Wilson and John Grant, eds.

  • G.I. Gurdjieff: The War Against Sleep and The Strange Life of P.D. Ouspensky (1980, 1986)
    This is a Kindle edition.

  • The Book of Time (1980), Colin Wilson and John Grant. eds.

  • Frankenstein's Castle, The Right Brain: Door To Wisdom (1980)

  • Starseekers (1980)

  • Science Fiction as Existentialism (1980)

  • The Haunted Man: The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (1979, 1990) with E. H. Visiak and J.B. Pick

  • Mysteries (1978)
    Sequel to The Occult.

  • Mysteries of the Mind (1978)
    Aka Mysterious Powers

  • Colin Wilson's Men of Mystery (1977) with various authors
    Aka Dark Dimensions.

  • The Geller Phenomenon (1976)

  • Enigmas and Mysteries (1975)

  • The Craft of the Novel (1975)

  • Mysterious Powers (1975)
    Aka They Had Strange Powers.  Reprinted as Mysteries of the Mind.

  • The Unexplained (1975)

  • A Book of Booze (1974)

  • Hesse-Reich-Borges: Three Essays (1974)

  • Jorge Luis Borges (1974)
    “Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.”

     These words, inseparably marrying Jorge Luis Borges's life and work, encapsulate how he interwove the two throughout his legendary career. But the Borges of popular imagination is the blind, lauded librarian and man of letters; few biographers have explored his tumultuous early life in the streets and cafes of Buenos Aires, a young man searching for his path in the world.  In Jorge Luis Borges, Jason Wilson uncovers the young poet who wrote, loved, and lost with adventurous passion, and he considers the later work and life of the writer who claimed he never created a character other than himself. As Borges declared, “It’s always me, subtly disguised.”

    Born in Buenos Aires in 1899, Borges was a voracious reader from childhood, perhaps in part because he knew he lived under an inescapable sentence of adult-onset blindness inherited from his father. Wilson chronicles Borges’s life as he raced against time and his fated blindness, charting the literary friendships, love affairs, and polemical writings that formed the foundation of his youth. Illuminating the connections running between the biography and fictions of Borges, Wilson traces the outline of this self-effacing literary figure.

    Though in his later writings Borges would subjugate emotion to the wild play of ideas, this bracing book reminds us that his works always recreated his life in subtle and delicate ways. Restoring Borges to his Argentine roots, Jorge Luis Borges will be an invaluable resource for all those who treasure this modern master.

  • Wilhelm Reich (1974)

  • Hermann Hesse (1974)
    Fascinating insights into Hesse's personal search for truth. A concise, compelling analysis of Hesse's life and work. Wilson provides an important assessment of classic novels such as The Glass Bead Game - for which Hesse won the Nobel Prize - as well as all-time favorites, Siddhartha and Steppenwolf. Wilson's first book, The Outsider, effectively put Hesse back on the map, resulting in the Hesse revival of the 1960s.

  • "Tree" by Tolkien (1973)

  • Strange Powers (1973)

  • New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian RevolutionLove (1972)
    Written with the "active and detailed cooperation of Abraham Maslow". Maslow and Wilson were friends and correspondents during the 1960s, and Maslow worked together with Wilson to create this excellent study of Maslovian Psychology. New Pathways first reviews the history of psychology, providing a much-needed context for understanding the revolutionary nature of Maslow's "Third Force" movement. Wilson then brings Maslow's work to life by focusing on the practical applications of Maslow's theories. Highly recommended for advanced students and researchers who wish to understand the complexities of human motivation and consciousness.

  • The Occult: A History (1971)
    Colin Wilson’s classic work is an essential guide to the mind-expanding experiences and discoveries of the occult in the 20th century. He produces a wonderfully skillful synthesis of the available material—one that sees the occult in the light of reason and reason in the light of the mystical and paranormal. The result is a wide-ranging survey of the subject that provides a comprehensive history of magic, an insightful exploration of our latent powers, and a journey of enlightenment.

  • L'amour: The Ways of Love (1970)

  • Poetry and Mysticism (1969, 1970)
    The mystic's moment of illumination shares with great poetry the liberating power of the deepest levels of consciousness. In the words of William Blake, "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to a man as it is, infinite."

    Poetry, Wilson argues, is a contradiction of the habitual prison of daily life and shows the way to transcend the ordinary world through an act of intense attention-and intention. The poet, like the mystic, is subject to sudden ""peak experiences"" when ""everything we look upon is blessed."" W.B. Yeats, Dostoevsky, Gautama Buddha, Kazantzakis, Van Gogh, Rupert Brooke, Arunja, Nietzsche, A.L. Rouse, Jacob Boehme, Suzuki, Edgar Allan Poe: their visionary understanding can generate an awareness in each of us of our potential to open the floodgates of inner energy that creates mystic experience.

    Colin Wilson first received international acclaim in 1956 for The Outsider. ""Ever since I was thirteen, I have been obsessed by the question of the nature of mystical experience,"" he writes, and from that time he has been on a quest of the mystical in poetry, religion, and psychology.

  • Bernard Shaw: A Reassessment (1969)

  • Chords and Discords: Purely Personal Opinions on Music (1966)
    Expanded version of Brandy of the Damned with an added chapter on American composers.

  • Introduction to the New Existentialism (1966)

  • Sex and the Intelligent Teenager (1966)

  • Eagle and Earwig: Essays on Books and Writers (1965)

  • Brandy Of The Damned (1964, 1967)
    Later expanded and reprinted as Chords and Discords: Purely Personal Opinions on Music / Colin Wilson on Music.

  • Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs (1964)

Murder Trilogy

  1. Encyclopedia of Murder (1961) with Patricia Pitman

  2. A Casebook of Murder(1969)

  3. Order of Assassins: The Psychology of Murder (1972)

Outsider Cycle Series

  1. The Outsider (1956)
    The seminal work on alienation, creativity, and the modern mindset. First published 30 years ago, it illuminated the struggle of those who seek not only the transformation of the Self, but of society as a whole.

  2. Religion and the Rebel (1957)

  3. The Age of Defeat (1959)
    Aka The Stature of Man.

  4. The Strength to Dream: Literature and the Imagination (1962)

  5. Origins Of the Sexual Impulse (1963)
    First published in 1963, and called "the Sex Classic of the Century" by reviewer Paul Newman, Origins of the Sexual Impulse is an existential study of sexual health and perversion. Wilson offers an insightful "theory of symbolic response" which explores our use of intentionality to create our sexual identity and reality.

  6. Beyond the Outsider (1965)

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