There’s a lengthy appreciative essay by Colin Stanley on Ritual in the Dark at the London Fictions website here. There’s interesting photos throughout the essay too.
Two previously unpublished essays from the 70′s with an introduction by poet and Wilson scholar Vaughan Rapahatana : Comments on Boredom and Evolutionary Humanism and the New Psychology. Colin Wilson Edited and Introduced by Vaughan Rapatahana In two important and previously unpublished essays from the 1970s, Wilson, in the first, responds to an article on … Continue reading
Here are details of the next CW (students) Study, due May 27. Paupers’ Press are offering a pre-publication deal of £6.95 (inc post to UK addresses) to anyone who either sends a cheque (payable to Colin Stanley) or pays through PayPal before the end of May. Colin Stanley will be launching the book at Watkins … Continue reading
Valancourt continues it’s much appreciated reissue programme of CW’s fictive works with The World of Violence and The Man without a Shadow. Here’s the blurb for the former, a neglected gem in the Wilson canon…. As a child, the brilliant mathematical prodigy Hugh Greene’s two major influences were his eccentric old uncles, Nick and Sam. … Continue reading
A longer version of On Death by CW scholar Vaughan Rapatahana. His compendium of CW critique, Philosophical (a)Musings is available now. A portion of his PhD thesis – Wilson as Mystic – is still available from Paupers’ Press. On Death Introduction: It is time to take far more seriously our universal lack of emphasis on … Continue reading
Valancourt are now planning to reissue these out of print titles – Man Without a Shadow (intro by Colin Stanley) World of Violence (intro by Nicolas Tredell) God of the Labyrinth (intro by Gary Lachman) Ritual in the Dark and The Philosophers’ Stone are now available in paperbacks and as ebooks from Amazon. Meanwhile, here’s … Continue reading
Colin Stanley has written introductions to forthcoming reprints of Ritual in the Dark and The Philosopher’s Stone which will be published by Valancourt Books. More info here
On Death It is time to take far more seriously our universal lack of emphasis on the event of death, which seems – of course – a direct reversal of asking why life occurs in the first place, but which is not a corollary at all, for life is a given. Being is undeniable. So … Continue reading
Paupers’ Press is 30 years old this February. As part of the Paupers’ Press 30th anniversary celebrations, you are invited to join Colin Stanley, Managing Editor of Paupers’ Press , and Adam Daly, author of The Outsider-Writer, who will be in conversation at the European Bookshop, 5 Warwick Street, London W1B 5LU (off Regent Street) … Continue reading
The ‘Occult Trilogy’ is the collective label applied to Colin Wilson’s three major works on the occult: The Occult (1971); Mysteries: an Investigation into the Occult, the Paranormal and the Supernatural (1978) and Beyond the Occult (1988). They amounted to a monumental 1600 pages and have spawned many other lesser works. Colin Stanley, Wilson’s bibliographer … Continue reading
