bThe best of Colin Wilson in one fantastic volume. Containing extracts from Wilson's work on existentialism, criminology, psychology and the occult, this is an invaluable introduction to one of the late twentieth-century's most incisive thinkers.b pThis is a new edition of the classic Colin Wilson collection The Essential Colin Wilson first published in 1985, updated and introduced by Wilson's bibliographer Colin Stanley. It is the only book to contain extracts from Colin Wilson's most important work in one volume, including The Outsider 1956, A Criminal History of Mankind 1983, The New Existentialism 1966, The Occult 1971, New Pathways in Psychology 1972 and Mysteries 1978, as well as three of his novels and many other texts. Subjects covered include existentialism, criminology, psychology, consciousness studies, the occult and much more. This second edition includes all of the original volume plus six essential post-1985 essays and chapters chosen by Stanley and other Colin Wilson ex