History Creator / ColinWilson

* ''The Space Vampires'' (1976), filmed as ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}''

* SealedEvilInACan: The premise of novel ''The Space Vampires'' (later filmed as ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'').

* WorldOfWeirdness: The trilogy of brick-thick "non-fiction" books beginning with ''The Occult", which on one level are an eye-opening catalogue of Fortean events, inexplicable phenomena and anomalous weirdness here on Planet Earth, but which are linked by Wilson's theory of the underlying cause being an as-yet unknown property of the human mind.

* WorldOfWeirdness: The trilogy of brick-thick "non-fiction" books beginning with ''The Occult", which on one level are an eye-opening catalog of Fortean events, inexplicable phenomena and anomalous weirdness here on Planet Earth, but which are linked by Wilson's theory of the underlying cause being an as-yet unknown property of the human mind.

* WorldOfWeirdness: The trilogy of brick-thick "non-fiction" books beginning with ''The Occult", which one one level are an eye-opening catalog of Fortean events, inexplicable phenomena and anomalous weirdness here on Planet Earth, but which are linked by Wilson's theory of the underlying cause being an as-yet unknown property of the human mind.

* ''[[Film/{{Lifeforce}} The Space Vampires]]''. Filmed as ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}''.
* The ''[[GiantSpiders Spider World]]'' series

Colin Henry Wilson, born in Leicester, England, 1931, was a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction books in many genres - philosophy, literary criticism, science-fiction, fantasy, horror and the occult. He came to fame and some notoriety in 1956 with his first book, ''The Outsider'', which explored themes of alienation and anomie in nineteenth and twentieth century writing, as well as exploring the lives and motivations of some of the people who wrote it. This propelled him to overnight fame as one of the "Angry Young Men" who were being lauded at the time by some of the British intelligensia (others included the playwright John Osbourne and the novelist Kingsley Amis). The fact he had written the book without having gone to university and whilst living rough on Hampstead Heath to save money were newsworthy hooks the media exploited. The fact his lover's father turned up one day, and had to be physically restrained from going for Wilson with a horsewhip, only fuelled the flames.

Colin Henry Wilson, born in Leicester, England, 1931, was a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction books in many genres - philosophy, literary criticism, science-fiction, fantasy, horror and the occult. He came to fame and some notoriety in 1956 with his first book, ''Literature/TheOutsider'', which explored themes of alienation and anomie in nineteenth and twentieth century writing, as well as exploring the lives and motivations of some of the people who wrote it. This propelled him to overnight fame as one of the "Angry Young Men" who were being lauded at the time by some of the British intelligensia (others included the playwright John Osbourne and the novelist Kingsley Amis). The fact he had written the book without having gone to university and whilst living rough on Hampstead Heath to save money were newsworthy hooks the media exploited. The fact his lover's father turned up one day, and had to be physically restrained from going for Wilson with a horsewhip, only fuelled the flames.

* ''Literature/TheOutsider (1956)''

Colin Henry Wilson, born in Leicester, England, 1931, was a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction books in many genres - philosophy, literary criticism, science-fiction, fantasy, horror and the occult. He came to fame and some notoriety in 1956 with his first book, ''Literature/TheOutsider'', which explored themes of alienation and anomie in nineteenth and twentieth century writing, as well as exploring the lives and motivations of some of the people who wrote it. This propelled him to overnight fame as one of the "Angry Young Men" who were being lauded at the time by some of the British intelligensia (others included the playwright John Osbourne and the novelist Kingsley Amis. The fact he had written the book without having gone to university and whilst living rough on Hampstead Heath to save money were newsworthy hooks the media exploited. The fact his lover's father turned up one day, and had to be physically restrained from going for Wilson with a horsewhip, only fuelled the flames.

Colin Henry Wilson, born in Leicester, England, 1931, was a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction books in many genres - philosophy, literary criticism, science-fiction, fantasy, horror and the occult. He came to fame and some notoriety in 1956 with his first book, ''Literature/TheOutsider'', which explored themes of alienation and anomie in nineteenth and twentieth century writing, as well as exploring the lives and motivations of some of the people who wrote it. This propelled him to overnight fame as a literary equivalent of the "Angry Young Men" who were being lauded at the time by the British intelligensia. The fact he had written his masterwork without having gone to university and whilst living rough on Hampstead Heath to save money were newsworthy hooks the media exploited. The fact his lover's father turned up one day, and had to be physically restrained from going for Wilson with a horsewhip, only fuelled the flames.

In later years Wilson became interested in parascience and the occult, and wrote a series of decidedly Fortean anthologies of anomolous and strange things inexplicable by current science. He theorised that the unifying feature for all these manifestations was the largely unexplored higher potential of the human mind, a concept for which he coined the phrase ''Faculty X''. Wilson has also written some works of criminology, including an analysis of the Moors Murderers, and several explorations of violent and sexual crime, of which ''Order of Assassins'' is a typical example. He has also written for magazines including ''Magazine/ForteanTimes''.

* EldritchAbomination: Wilson has written several novels in the spirit of Creator/HPLovecraft using his themes and locations. ''The Mind Parasites'' is extremely Lovecraftian.

* CosmicHorrorStory: ''The Mind Parasites'', in which Lovecraftian monsters get into the Jungian shared unconsciousness as a means of attacking human minds - from the inside.

* SealedEvilInACan: the premise of novel ''The Space Vampires'' (later filmed as ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'').
* giantSpiders: The ''Spider World'' series, in which arachnids inherit the Earth.
* {{Wangst}}: A persistent criticism of ''The Outsider'', the literary deconstruction that briefly made his name.
* WorldOfWeirdness: The trilogy of brick-thick "non-fiction" books beginning with ''The Occult", which one one level are an eye-opening catalogue of Fortean events, inexplicable phenomena and anomalous weirdness here on Planet Earth, but which are linked by Wilson's theory of the underlying cause being an as-yet unknown property of the human mind.

* ''[[Film/{{Lifeforce}} The Space Vampires]]''. Filmed as ''Film/{{Lifeforce}]''.

* ''[[Film/{{Lifeforce}} The Space Vampires]]''. Filmed as ''Film/{[Lifeforce}]''.

* ''[[Film/{{Lifeforce}} The Space Vampires]]''. Filmed as ''Film/Lifeforce''.

* ''[[Film/{{Lifeforce}} The Space Vampires]]''

* CosmicHorrorStory: ''The mind Parasites'', in which Lovecraftian monsters get into the Jungian shared unconsciousness as a means of attacking human minds - from the inside.

In later years Wilson became interested in parascience and the occult, and wrote a series of decidedly Fortean anthologies of anomolous and strange things inexplicable by current science. He theorised that the unifying feature for all these manifestations was the largely unexplored higher potential of the human mind, a concept for which he coined the phrase ''Faculty X''. Wilson has also written some works of criminology, including an analysis of the Moors Murderers, and several explorations of violent and sexual crime, of which ''Order of Assassins'' is a typical example. He has also written for magazines including ''ForteanTimes''.

Colin Henry Wilson, born in Leicester, England, 1931, was a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction books in many genres - philosophy, literary criticism, science-fiction, fantasy, horror and the occult. He came to fame and some notoreity in 1956 with his first book, ''Literature/TheOutsider'', which explored themes of alienation and anomie in nineteenth and twentieth century writing, as well as exploring the lives and motivation s of some of the people who wrote it. This propelled him to overnight fame as a literary equivalent of the "Angry Young Men" who were being lauded at the time by the British intelligensia. The fact he had written his masterwork without having gone to university and whilst living rough on Hampstead Heath to save money were newsworthy hooks the media exploited. The fact his lover's father turned up one day, and had to be physically restrained from going for Wilson with a horsewhip, only fuelled the flames.

In later years Wilson became interested in parascience and the occult, and wrote a series of decidedly Fortean anthologies of anomolous and strange things inexplicable by current science. He theorised that the unifying feature for all these manifestations was the largely unexplored higher potential of the human mind, a concept for which he coined the phrase ''Faculty X''.

* WorldOfWeirdness: The trilogy of brick-thick "non-fiction" books beginning with ''The Occult", which one one level are an eye-opening catalogue of Fortean events, inexplicable phenomena and anomolous weirdness here on Planet Earth, but which are linked by Wilson's theory of the underlying cause being an as-yet unknown property of the human mind.

* CosmicHorrorStory: ''The mind Parasites'', in which Lovecraftian monsters get into the Jungian shared unconsciousness as a means of attacking human minds - from the inside.

* SealedEvilInACan: the premise of novel ''The Space Vampires'' (later filmed as ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'').

* CosmicHorrorStory:
* EldritchAbomination:

* ''[[Film/Lifeforce The Space Vampires]]''

* SealedEvilInACan: the premise of novel ''The Space Vampires'' (later filmed as ''Film/Lifeforce'').

* SealedEvilInACan: the premise of novel ''The Space Vampires'' (later filmed).