Colin Wilson was born on June 26, 1931 in the East Midlands city of Leicester—the first child of Arthur and Annetta Wilson. At the age of eleven he attended Gateway Secondary Technical School, where his interest in science began to blossom. Even at this early age he seemed to be blessed with the self confidence and optimistic belief in his own genius that later was often mistaken for arrogance:

“Secretly I admired Newton, for I imagined him as occupying a place in the hierarchy—Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Planck, Einstein—which would one day include myself.” (Salwak 5)

By the age of 14 he had compiled a multi-volume work of essays covering all aspects of science entitled A Manual of G…

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Articles on Wilson's works

1. A Criminal History of Mankind
2. Access to Inner Worlds
3. Adrift In Soho
4. Beyond the Occult
5. Beyond the Outsider: the philosophy of the future
6. Eagle and Earwig
7. Existential Criticism: selected book reviews
8. Existentially Speaking: essays on the philosophy of literature
9. Frankenstein’s Castle: the double brain, door to wisdom
10. Introduction to the New Existentialism
11. Lord of the Underworld: Jung and the twentieth century
12. Man Without a Shadow: the diary of an existentialist
13. Mozart’s Journey to Prague: a playscript
14. Mysteries
15. Mysteries: an investigation into the occult, the paranormal and the supernatural
16. Necessary Doubt
17. New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the post-Freudian revolution
18. Origins of the Sexual Impulse
19. Poetry & Mysticism
20. Religion and the Rebel
21. Ritual in the Dark
22. Spider World: Shadowland
23. Spider World: the Delta
24. Spider World: the Magician
25. Spider World: the Tower
26. Strindberg
27. Super Consciousness: the quest for the peak experience
28. The Age of Defeat
29. The Angry Years: the rise and fall of the Angry Young Men
30. The Bicameral Critic
31. The Black Room
32. The Books in My Life
33. The Craft of the Novel
34. The Death of God and other plays
35. The Essential Colin Wilson
36. The Glass Cage
37. The God of the Labyrinth (aka The Hedonists)
38. The Janus Murder Case
39. The Killer (aka Lingard)
40. The Magician from Siberia
41. The Metal Flower Blossom
42. The Mind Parasites
43. The Misfits: a study of sexual outsiders
44. The Occult
45. The Outsider
46. The Personality Surgeon
47. The Philosopher’s Stone
48. The Quest for Wilhelm Reich
49. The Return of the Lloigor
50. The Schoolgirl Murder Case
51. The Space Vampires (aka Lifeforce)
52. The Strength to Dream: literature and the imagination
53. The World of Violence

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