Ebook: Around the Outsider: Essays presented to Colin Wilson on the occasion of his 80th birthday

Preface; The Fiction; Ritual in the Dark (1960); Necessary Doubt (1964); The Mind Parasites (1967); The Philosopher's Stone (1969); The Non-Fiction; The Outsider (1956); Introduction to the New Existentialism (1966); Poetry and Mysticism (1969/1970); New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution (1972); The Craft of the Novel (1975); Mysteries: an Investigation into the Occult, the Paranormal, and the Supernatural (1978); The Haunted Man: the strange genius of David Lindsay (1979); Access to Inner Worlds (1983); A Criminal History of Mankind (1984).;In May 1956, aged just 24, Colin Wilson achieved success and overnight fame with his philosophical study of alienation and transcendence in modern literature and thought, The Outsider. Fifty-four years on, and never out of print in English, the book is still widely read and discussed, having been translated into over thirty languages. In a remarkably prolific career, Wilson, a true polymath, has since written over 170 titles: novels, plays and non-fiction on a variety of subjects. This volume brings together twenty essays by scholars of Colin Wilson?s work worldwide and is published in his hon.