Colin Wilson was born in the East Midlands city of Leicester in 1931. After the phenomenal success of his first book The Outsider in 1956, he moved to Cornwall where he pursued a successful career as a writer, producing over 150 titles in fifty-five years. Essentially an existential philosopher, he has also written on crime, psychology, sex, the occult, literature, music, unexplained phenomena, history, pre-history, and over twenty novels in various genres. He died in December 2013.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements 7
One Does Magic Work? 9
Two The Reluctant Christian 25
Three Raising Hell 46
Four The Chosen of the Gods 62
Five The Master and the Disciples 83
Six The Magic Wand 101
Seven The Abbey of Do-What-You-Will 117
Eight Paradise Lost 135
Epilogue 153
Select Bibliography 169
Index 171
