Colin Wilson's first book, The Outsider (1956), was almost instantly an international best-seller. It quickly became one of the most controversial items in recent literary history. Wilson's significan...
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Colin Wilson shot to fame in 1956 with his first book, The Outsider, a lively and wide-ranging survey of social and spiritual alienation. The book quickly became a best-seller in Britain and the Unite...
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Critical Essay by Helen Mcneil
In Mysteries, Colin Wilson reveals that the germ of his subjective compendium of psychology and the occult began when he was trying to write over 3,000 words a day for ...
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Critical Essay by Christopher Bird
[In Mysteries] Colin Wilson addresses the same theme that has consistently threaded its way through all of his books, beginning with The Outsider, which brought him...
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Critical Essay by Alan Hull Walton
[Mysteries] marks a new 'high' in Wilson's prodigious output, placing him in the top rank of serious contemporary investigators of the paranorm...
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Critical Essay by Paul T. Hornak
[Mysteries] is an encyclopedic treatment of the supernatural that begins with the assumption that seers, UFO watchers, dowsers, and people haunted by ghosts are not k...
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Critical Essay by Clifford P. Bendau
Colin Wilson is not an academic. Not tied to a specific discipline, he concerns himself with the entire spectrum of the humanities. His case-book studies of the h...
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Colin Wilson
Critical Essay by Helen Mcneil
