Colin Wilson (Leicester, 1931. június 26. – 2013. december 5.Gyászjelelentése) angol író.
Életrajza Reinhold Alfréd (Alfred Reynolds) angol író és magyar költő fölfedezettjeként és tanítványaként,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Reynolds_(writer) első nagy sikerű esszékötetét 1956-ban jelentette meg The Outsider (Az Idegen) címmel Reinhold Pilate's Questions című esszékötetére való válaszadásképpen.
Művei The Outsider (1956) Religion and the Rebel (1957) "The Frenchman" (short story, Evening Standard August 22, 1957) The Age of Defeat (US title The Stature of Man) (1959) Ritual in the Dark (1960) Encyclopedia of Murder (with Patricia Pitman, 1961) Adrift in Soho (1961) "Watching the Bird" (short story, Evening News September 12, 1961) "Uncle Tom and the Police Constable" (short story, Evening News October 23, 1961) "He Could not Fail" (short story, Evening News December 29, 1961) The Strength to Dream: Literature and the Imagination (1962) "Uncle and the Lion" (short story, Evening News September 28, 1962) "Hidden Bruise" (short story, Evening News December 3, 1962) Origins of the Sexual Impulse (1963) The World of Violence (US title The Violent World of Hugh Greene) (1963) Man Without a Shadow (US title The Sex Diary of Gerard Sorme) (1963) "The Wooden Cubes" (short story, Evening News June 27, 1963) Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs (1964) Brandy of the Damned (1964; later expanded and reprinted as Chords and Discords/Colin Wilson On Music) Necessary Doubt (1964) Beyond the Outsider (1965) Eagle and Earwig (1965) Sex and the Intelligent Teenager (1966) Introduction to the New Existentialism (1966) The Glass Cage (1966) The Mind Parasites (1967) Voyage to a Beginning (1969) A Casebook of Murder (1969) Bernard Shaw: A Reassessment (1969) The Philosopher's Stone (1969) The Return of the Lloigor (first published 1969 in the anthology Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos; revised separate edition, Village Press, London, 1974). Poetry and Mysticism (1969; subsequently significantly expanded in 1970) "The Return of the Lloigor" (short story in Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, edited by August Derleth, 1969; later revised and published as a separate book) L'amour: The Ways of Love (1970) The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (with E. H. Visiak and J.B. Pick, 1970) Strindberg (1970) The God of the Labyrinth (US title The Hedonists) (1970) The Killer (US title Lingard) (1970) The Occult: A History (1971) The Black Room (1971) Order of Assassins: The Psychology of Murder (1972) New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution (1972) Strange Powers (1973) "Tree" by Tolkien (1973) Hermann Hesse (1974) Wilhelm Reich (1974) Jorge Luis Borges (1974) Hesse-Reich-Borges: Three Essays (1974) Ken Russell: A Director in Search of a Hero (1974) A Book of Booze (1974) The Schoolgirl Murder Case (1974) The Unexplained (1975) Mysterious Powers (US title They Had Strange Powers) (1975) The Craft of the Novel (1975) Enigmas and Mysteries (1975) The Geller Phenomenon (1975) The Space Vampires (1976) Colin Wilson's Men of Mystery (US title Dark Dimensions) (with various authors, 1977) Mysteries (1978) Mysteries of the Mind (with Stuart Holroyd, 1978) The Haunted Man: The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (1979) "Timeslip" (short story in Aries I, edited by John Grant, 1979) Science Fiction as Existentialism (1980) Starseekers (1980) Frankenstein's Castle: the Right Brain-Door to Wisdom (1980) The Book of Time, edited by John Grant and Colin Wilson (1980) The War Against Sleep: The Philosophy of Gurdjieff (1980) The Directory of Possibilities, edited by Colin Wilson and John Grant (1981) Poltergeist!: A Study in Destructive Haunting (1981) Anti-Sartre, with an Essay on Camus (1981) The Quest for Wilhelm Reich (1982) The Goblin Universe (with Ted Holiday, 1982) Access to Inner Worlds: The Story of Brad Absetz (1983) Encyclopedia of Modern Murder, 1962-82 (1983) "A Novelization of Events in the Life and Death of Grigori Efimovich Rasputin," in Tales of the Uncanny (Reader's Digest Association, 1983; an abbreviated version of the later The Magician from Siberia) The Psychic Detectives: The Story of Psychometry and Paranormal Crime Detection (1984) [A Criminal History of Mankind] (1984), revised and updated (2005) Lord of the Underworld: Jung and the Twentieth Century (1984) The Janus Murder Case (1984) The Bicameral Critic (1985) The Essential Colin Wilson (1985) Rudolf Steiner: The Man and His Vision (1985) Afterlife: An Investigation of the Evidence of Life After Death (1985) The Personality Surgeon (1985) An Encyclopedia of Scandal. Edited by Colin Wilson and Donald Seaman (1986) The Book of Great Mysteries. Edited by Colin Wilson and Dr. Christopher Evans (1986) An Essay on the 'New' Existentialism (1988) The Laurel and Hardy Theory of Consciousness (1986) Spider World: The Tower (1987) Spider World: The Delta (1987) Marx Refuted – The Verdict of History, edited by Colin Wilson (with contributions also) and Ronald Duncan, Bath, (UK), (1987), Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast (1987) The Musician as 'Outsider'. (1987) The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries (with Damon Wilson, 1987) Jack the Ripper: Summing Up and Verdict (with Robin Odell, 1987) Autobiographical Reflections (1988) The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders (1988) Beyond the Occult (1988) The Mammoth Book of True Crime (1988) The Magician from Siberia (1988) The Decline and Fall of Leftism (1989) Written in Blood: A History of Forensic Detection (1989) Existentially Speaking: Essays on the Philosophy of Literature (1989) Serial Killers: A Study in the Psychology of Violence (1990) Spider World: The Magician (1992) Mozart's Journey to Prague (1992) The Strange Life of P.D. Ouspensky (1993) Unsolved Mysteries (with Damon Wilson, 1993) Outline of the Female Outsider (1994) A Plague of Murder (1995) From Atlantis to the Sphinx (1996) An Extraordinary Man in the Age of Pigmies: Colin Wilson on Henry Miller (1996) The Atlas of Sacred Places (1997) Below the Iceberg: Anti-Sartre and Other Essays (reissue with essays on postmodernism, 1998) The Corpse Garden (1998) The Books in My Life (1998) Alien Dawn (1999) The Devil's Party (US title Rogue Messiahs) (2000) The Atlantis Blueprint (with Rand Flem-Ath, 2000) Illustrated True Crime: A Photographic History (2002) The Tomb of the Old Ones (with John Grant, 2002) Spider World: Shadowlands (2002) Dreaming To Some Purpose (2004) World Famous UFOs (2005) Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals (2006) Crimes of Passion: The Thin Line Between Love and Hate (2006) The Angry Years: The Rise and Fall of the Angry Young Men (2007) Manhunters: Criminal Profilers & Their Search for the World's Most Wanted Serial Killers (2007) Super Consciousness (2009)
Kiadatlan művei The Anatomy of Human Greatness (non-fiction, written 1964; Maurice Bassett plans to publish this work electronically) Metamorphosis of the Vampire (fiction, written 1992-94)
Magyarul
Életerő. Az üstökös visszatér...; ford. Kornya Zsolt; Valhalla Páholy, Bp., 1994
Jegyzetek
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Bendau, Clifford C. Colin Wilson: The Outsider and Beyond (1979), San Bernardino: Borgo Press Dalgleish, Tim The Guerilla Philosopher: Colin Wilson and Existentialism (1993), Nottingham: Paupers' Press Dossor, Howard F. Colin Wilson: the man and his mind (1990) Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element Books Dossor, Howard F. The Philosophy of Colin Wilson: three perspectives (1996), Nottingham: Paupers' Press Greenwell, Tom Chepstow Road: a literary comedy in two acts (2002) Nottingham: Paupers' Press Lachman, Gary Two essays on Colin Wilson (1994), Nottingham: Paupers' Press Moorhouse, John & Newman, Paul Colin Wilson, two essays (1988), Nottingham: Paupers' Press Newman, Paul Murder as an Antidote for Boredom: the novels of Laura Del Rivo, Colin Wilson and Bill Hopkins (1996), Nottingham: Paupers' Press Robertson, Vaughan Wilson as Mystic(2001), Nottingham: Paupers' Press Salwak, Dale (ed) Interviews with Britain's Angry Young Men (1984) San Bernardino: Borgo Press Shand, John & Lachman, Gary Colin Wilson as Philosopher (1996), Nottingham: Paupers' Press Smalldon, Jeffrey Human Nature Stained: Colin Wilson and the existential study of modern murder (1991) Nottingham: Paupers'Press Spurgeon, Brad Colin Wilson: philosopher of optimism, (2006), Manchester: Michael Butterworth Stanley, Colin (ed) Colin Wilson, a celebration: essays and recollections (1988), London: Cecil Woolf Stanley, Colin Colin Wilson, the first fifty years: an existential bibliography 1956-2005 (2006) Nottingham: Paupers' Press Stanley, Colin Colin Wilson's 'Outsider Cycle': a guide for students (2009). Nottingham: Paupers' Press Stanley, Colin 'The Nature of Freedom' and other essays (1990), Nottingham: Paupers' Press Tredell, Nicolas The Novels of Colin Wilson (1982) London: Vision Press Trowell, Michael Colin Wilson, the positive approach (1990), Nottingham: Paupers' Press Weigel, John A Colin Wilson (1975) Boston: Twayne Publishers
Külső hivatkozások Colin Wilson World – admirer-run site with some Wilson contributions The Colin Wilson Page – This was the first Colin Wilson site, first set up in 1996. It is no longer available, but is still archived by the Wayback Machine Abraxas – Wilson-related journal The Phenomenology of Excess A multimedia Colin Wilson site, approved by its subject Audio Interview by William H. Kennedy Sphinx Radio, 9/28/2008 Interview by Gary Lachman, Fortean Times, October 2004 Colin Wilson's August 2005 interview @ The New York Times Creel Commission Interview with Colin Wilson The Sons of TC Lethbridge – Colin's collaboration with the prog-rock band 'The Sons of TC Lethbridge' Harry Ritchie, 'Look back in wonder', The Guardian (Review section) (Saturday, 12 August 2006) Entry in The Literary Encyclopedia by Colin Stanley Colin Wilson interviewed on poetry and the peak experience Colin Wilson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Lyrics
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