ULTIMATE COLIN WILSON: Writings on Mysticism

Colin Wilson was a highly respected and erudite writer on subjects such as the paranormal, the supernatural and philosophy, with bestsellers including The Outsider and Mysteries. This essential collection of his writings on mysticism, existentialism, consciousness studies, psychology, criminology and the occult is an invaluable introduction. It is the only book to collect extracts from his most important work in one volume including The Outsider (1956), A Criminal History of Mankind (1984), The New Existentialism (1966), The Occult (1971), New Pathways in Psychology (1972) and Mysteries (1978), as well as novels such as The Schumacher Lecture, Visions on the Eiger and The Laurel and Hardy Theory of Consciousness, and his fiction works from The Spider World series and many other texts. Fully revised and updated edition with six essential post-1985 essays and chapters chosen by his bibliographer Colin Stanley and other experts. A Watkins large softback, 315pp.