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Two previously unpublished essays from the 70′s with an introduction by poet and Wilson scholar Vaughan Rapahatana : Comments on Boredom and Evolutionary Humanism and the New Psychology. Colin Wilson Edited and Introduced by Vaughan Rapatahana In two important and previously unpublished essays from the 1970s, Wilson, in the first, responds to an article on … Continue reading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
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
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
Philosophical (a)Musings: Colin Wilson, Me + the Meaning of Life, by Vaughan Rapatahana. Entropy Press 2012. We’re all aware of the glib hack work that has passed for criticism of CW’s work since time immemorial – well, around 1957 -that dreary, repetitive template of personal sniping which masks a lazy, anti intellectual non-interest in Colin’s … Continue reading
Colin Stanley will be giving a talk on ‘Colin Wilson and the Occult’ for the Atlantis Bookshop at the Cartoonist Pub, 76 Shoe Lane (off Fleet Street) EC4A 3JB on the evening of Wednesday 12th December. Tickets are £5 and can be had from the Atlantis Bookshop, tel. 02074052120 or e-mail atlantis@theatlantisbookshop.com Hope to see … Continue reading
