Colin Wilson

Wilson, Colin

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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.

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Brandy of the damned
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Bullet To The Head
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Scandal!
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Poltergeist
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The encyclopedia of crime
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L'arche ologie interdite
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Storia criminale del genere umano
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The Death of God and Other Plays
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Serial killer investigations
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The giant book of bad guys
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The Angry Years
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Strindberg
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The murder casebook
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Serial killer investigations
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A photographic record
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Crimes of Passion
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Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals
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The Giant Book of True Crime
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Mysteries
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Serial Killer Investigations
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The Occult
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THE MURDER CASEBOOK (2006) Classic Accounts of Famous Modern Crimes
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The mind parasites
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The strange life of P.D. Ouspensky
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