Colin Wilson
26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013
407 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Colin Henry Wilson was a British author who had written works on philosophy, true crime, and mysticism, as well as novels. He was born and raised in Leicester, England, the son of a factory worker. He attended school until he was 16, at which point he quit to work in a wool warehouse. He worked other odd jobs, including as a lab assistant and a civil servant, until he was called up to work as a clerk for the Royal Air Force. He worked there for six months until claiming that he was a homosexual in order to be dismissed. In 1956, his first book, *The Outsider*, was published.
Most-read books
The outsider
4.5 · 1956 · 59 want to read
The occult
5 · 1971 · 46 want to read
The mammoth book of true crime
1988 · 41 want to read
The mind parasites
4 · 1967 · 22 want to read
Serial killer investigations
2006 · 21 want to read
The Occult
4 · 1971 · 19 want to read
Poltergeist
1981 · 15 want to read
The Outsider
4 · 1980 · 11 want to read
The encyclopedia of crime
2005 · 13 want to read
Aleister Crowley
5 · 1988 · 12 want to read
Rasputin and the fall of the Romanovs
3 · 1964 · 11 want to read
The Directory of possibilities
1981 · 10 want to read
A Criminal History of Mankind
3 · 1990 · 10 want to read
Origins of the sexual impulse
1963 · 11 want to read
The encyclopedia of unsolved mysteries
1987 · 11 want to read
The philosopher's stone
5 · 1969 · 10 want to read
Strange powers
4 · 1973 · 9 want to read
Written in blood
4 · 1989 · 10 want to read
The essential Colin Wilson
1985 · 9 want to read
Semiotext(e) SF
1989 · 9 want to read
Encyclopaedia of modern murder, 1962-82
1983 · 8 want to read
New pathways in psychology
1974 · 7 want to read
The mammoth encyclopedia of the unsolved
4 · 2000 · 6 want to read
Poetry and mysticism
1969 · 8 want to read