Colin Wilson

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1977
  • Latest Book:
    August 2015
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Full Series List in Order

Spider World

1 - The Desert (Sep-1988)
2 - The Tower (Dec-1988)
3 - The Fortress (Jun-1989)
4 - The Delta (Jan-1990)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Space Vampires

    Circa 2100 A scourge of sex and death from an alien spaceship WHEN CAPTAIN CARLSEN ENTERED THE VAST DERELICT SPACESHIP, he was shaken by the discovery of its immobilized humanoid passengers.Later, after three of the strange aliens had been transporte...

  • Lingard

  • The Schoolgirl Murder Case

  • Lifeforce

  • The Outsider

    The classic study of alienation, existentialism, and how great artists have portrayed characters who exist on the margins of society.   Published to immense acclaim in the mid-1950s, The Outsider helped make popular the literary concept of exist...

  • The Sex Diary of a Metaphysician

  • The Desert

    Spider World - 1

  • The Tower

    Spider World - 2

  • The Fortress

    Spider World - 3



  • The Philosopher's Stone

    ''An important literary achievement.'' - Library Journal

    ''Colin Wilson has a narrative style that can make the pursuit of any idea seem like exciting detective work.'' - The Times

    ''Colin Wilson''s best novel to date.'' - The Spectator...

  • The Delta

    Spider World - 4

  • Beyond the Outsider

  • Ritual in the Dark

    'What an unforgettable, really great evocation. Terrible and tragic insight ... An important book.' - Sunday Times
    'Not since Dickens has a British fiction writer dealt with murder in a book of such size and seriousness.' - Sunday Express
    '...

  • Psychic Powers

  • The Killer

  • Spider World

  • Shadowland

    Shadowland is the long-awaited 4th volume of Spider World, a series reviewers have hailed as wonderfully well imagined and skillfully executed. In a bold effort to save his brother's life, Niall leaves the spider city and travels underground into Sha...

  • Losers: Endgame

    In the explosive conclusion of the Losers' saga, the team forces a final confrontation with the rogue C.I.A. agent Max, which leads to the discovery of the shocking secrets behind not only their foe but also one of their own....

  • Battler Britton

    Garth Ennis, the writer of the best-selling thought-provoking series PREACHER tells a an exciting tale of World War II in this riveting new graphic novel.

    In October, 1942, Allied forces are on the run from the unrelenting forces of the Nazis in ...



  • The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved

    Now available in one tremendous volume is a compelling and remarkable history spanning over two thousand years of the greatest unsolved mysteries known to mankind, including:Atlantis the Bermuda Triangle Bigfoot crop circles crystal skulls the H...

  • Adrift in Soho

    Harry Preston says goodbye to the provinces and comes to London looking for life and adventure. It is the mid-50s and he soon finds himself in the impoverished and slightly seedy world of the emerging Beat Generation. As he progresses through the ran...

  • Man Without a Shadow

    'One of the more earnest and interesting writers of his generation.' - The Guardian

    'Mr Wilson's vitality comes through. He writes a clear, light prose, and he makes his interests, however bizarre, seem important.' - Punch

    'Compellin...

  • The World of Violence

    'One of the more earnest and interesting writers of his generation.' - The Guardian

    'Readable to an almost hypnotic degree . . . absorbing and exciting.' - Sphere

    'Some really good narrative . . . impressive.' - New Statesman

  • The God of the Labyrinth

    'He writes a clear, light prose, and he makes his interests, however bizarre, seem important.' - Punch

    'One of the more earnest and interesting writers of his generation.' - The Guardian

    'He has the kind of story-telling power which...

  • The Glass Cage

    "Intelligent psycho-thriller . . . the plot is ingenious, well-turned and never facile. A compulsive damp Saturday afternoon read." - Observer

    "Literate and enthralling . . . Far beyond the conventional mystery." - Hollywood Reporter

  • Necessary Doubt

    'An entertaining confidence game, which seduces, startles, and ... assuredly succeeds in engaging one's interest.' - Kirkus Reviews

    '[Wilson] continues to try to find out what is really important in life ... surely his intentions deserve all...

  • A Casebook of Murder

    From the bestselling author of The Outsider, an exhaustive historical true crime survey.   Colin Wilson, co-author of the bestselling Encyclopedia of Murder, has written a definitive volume on the world’s major cases of violent murder. In doin...

  • Order of Assassins

    An examination of the motives for murder from the bestselling author of The Outsider -- “Colin Wilson puts the Manson murders in coldly sharp perspective” (Evening Standard).   Why is the “motiveless” murder an increasing phenomenon toda...

  • The Mind Parasites

    • / Horror
    • Buy Buy

    Wilson has blended H.P. Lovecraft's dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination. A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating a sinister ...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Colin Wilson has published 29 books.

Colin Wilson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Casebook of Murder, was published in August 2015.

The first book by Colin Wilson, Space Vampires, was published in February 1977.

Yes. Colin Wilson has 1 series.
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