Colin Henry Wilson (Leicester, 26 juny de 1931 – Cornualla, 5 de desembre del 2013) va ser un filòsof i escriptor britànic. Els principals temes de la seva obra són la criminalitat i el misticisme. Colin Wilson es va convertir en un dels Joves Iracunds de la literatura britànica. Va contribuir a Declaration, una antologia de manifestos escrits per escriptors existencialistes, amb Protest: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men. Wilson i els seus amics Bill Hopkins i Stuart Holroyd, van ser un subgrup més interessats en els "valors religiosos" que en la política liberal o socialista. Els crítics de l'esquerra aviat els van considerar feixistes; el comentarista Kenneth Allsop els anomenà "els jutges".
Obres fonamentals
The Outsider (1956)
Religion and the Rebel (1957)
"The Frenchman" (relat curt, Evening Standard 22 d'agost de 1957)
The Age of Defeat (als Estats Units, The Stature of Man) (1959)
Ritual in the Dark (1960)
Encyclopedia of Murder (with Patricia Pitman, 1961)
Adrift in Soho (1961)
"Watching the Bird" (relat curt, Evening News 12 de setembre de 1961)
"Uncle Tom and the Police Constable" (relat curt, Evening News 23 d'octubre de 1961)
"He Could not Fail" (relat curt, Evening News 29 de desembre de 1961)
The Strength to Dream: Literature and the Imagination (1962)
"Uncle and the Lion" (relat curt, Evening News 28 de setembre de 1962)
"Hidden Bruise" (relat curt, Evening News December 3, 1962)
Origins of the Sexual Impulse (1963)
The World of Violence (als Estats Units, The Violent World of Hugh Greene) (1963)
Man Without a Shadow (als Estats Units, The Sex Diary of Gerard Sorme) (1963)
"The Wooden Cubes" (relat curt, Evening News 27 de juny de 1963)
Rasputin and the Fall of the Romanovs (1964)
Brandy of the Damned (1964; posteriorment estès i reeditat com Chords and Discords/Colin Wilson On Music)
The Return of the Lloigor (publicat primer el 1969 amb l'antologia Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos; i en una edició separada i revisada, Village Press, Londres, 1974).
Poetry and Mysticism (1969; subsequently significantly expanded in 1970)
L'amour: The Ways of Love (1970)
The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (amb E. H. Visiak i J.B. Pick, 1970)
Strindberg (1970)
The God of the Labyrinth (als Estats Units, The Hedonists) (1970)
The Killer (als Estats Units, Lingard) (1970)
The Occult: A History (1971) (reeditat a España per Arcano Books en 2006, amb el títol Lo Oculto)
The Black Room (1971)
Order of Assassins: The Psychology of Murder (1972)
New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution (1972)
Strange Powers (1973)
"Tree" by Tolkien (1973)
Hermann Hesse (1974)
Wilhelm Reich (1974)
Jorge Luis Borges (1974)
Hesse-Reich-Borges: Three Essays (1974)
Ken Russell: A Director in Search of a Hero (1974)
A Book of Booze (1974)
The Schoolgirl Murder Case (1974)
The Unexplained (1975)
Mysterious Powers (US title They Had Strange Powers) (1975)
The Craft of the Novel (1975)
Enigmas and Mysteries (1975)
The Geller Phenomenon (1975)
The Space Vampires (1976)
Colin Wilson's Men of Mystery (als Estats Units Dark Dimensions) (amb diversos autors, 1977)
Mysteries (1978)
Mysteries of the Mind (with Stuart Holroyd, 1978)
The Haunted Man: The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (1979)
"Timeslip" (short story in Aries I, editat per John Grant, 1979)
Science Fiction as Existentialism (1980)
Starseekers (1980)
Frankenstein's Castle: the Right Brain-Door to Wisdom (1980)
The Book of Time, edited by John Grant and Colin Wilson (1980)
The War Against Sleep: The Philosophy of Gurdjieff (1980)
The Directory of Possibilities, editat per Colin Wilson i John Grant (1981)
Poltergeist!: A Study in Destructive Haunting (1981)
Anti-Sartre, with an Essay on Camus (1981)
The Quest for Wilhelm Reich (1982)
The Goblin Universe (with Ted Holiday, 1982)
Access to Inner Worlds: The Story of Brad Absetz (1983)
Encyclopedia of Modern Murder, 1962-82 (1983)
"A Novelization of Events in the Life and Death of Grigori Efimovich Rasputin," in Tales of the Uncanny (Reader's Digest Association, 1983; una edición abreviada del posteriorThe Magician from Siberia)
The Psychic Detectives: The Story of Psychometry and Paranormal Crime Detection (1984)
A Criminal History of Mankind (1984), revised and updated (2005)
Lord of the Underworld: Jung and the Twentieth Century (1984)
The Janus Murder Case (1984)
The Bicameral Critic (1985)
The Essential Colin Wilson (1985)
Rudolf Steiner: The Man and His Vision (1985)
Afterlife: An Investigation of the Evidence of Life After Death (1985)
The Personality Surgeon (1985)
An Encyclopedia of Scandal. Editat per Colin Wilson i Donald Seaman (1986)
The Book of Great Mysteries. Editat per Colin Wilson i Dr. Christopher Evans (1986)
An Essay on the 'New' Existentialism (1988)
The Laurel and Hardy Theory of Consciousness (1986)
Spider World: The Tower (1987)
Spider World: The Delta (1987)
Marx Refuted - The Verdict of History, editat per Colin Wilson (with contributions also) i Ronald Duncan, Bath, (UK), (1987), ISBN 0-906798-71-X
Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast (1987)
The Musician as 'Outsider'. (1987)
The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries (amb Damon Wilson, 1987)
Jack the Ripper: Summing Up and Verdict (amb Robin Odell, 1987)
Autobiographical Reflections (1988)
The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders (1988)
Beyond the Occult (1988)
The Mammoth Book of True Crime (1988)
The Magician from Siberia (1988)
The Decline and Fall of Leftism (1989)
Written in Blood: A History of Forensic Detection (1989)
Existentially Speaking: Essays on the Philosophy of Literature (1989)
Serial Killers: A Study in the Psychology of Violence (1990)
Spider World: The Magician (1992)
Mozart's Journey to Prague (1992)
The Strange Life of P.D. Ouspensky (1993)
Unsolved Mysteries (with Damon Wilson, 1993)
Outline of the Female Outsider (1994)
A Plague of Murder (1995)
From Atlantis to the Sphinx (1996) (editat a España pel Círculo de Lectores el 1996 amb el títol El Mensaje Oculto De La Esfinge)
An Extraordinary Man in the Age of Pigmies: Colin Wilson on Henry Miller (1996)
The Atlas of Sacred Places (1997)
Below the Iceberg: Anti-Sartre and Other Essays (reissue with essays on postmodernism, 1998)
The Corpse Garden (1998)
The Books in My Life (1998)
Alien Dawn (1999)
The Devil's Party (US title Rogue Messiahs) (2000)
The Atlantis Blueprint (with Rand Flem-Ath, 2000)
Illustrated True Crime: A Photographic History (2002)
The Tomb of the Old Ones (amb John Grant, 2002)
Spider World: Shadowlands (2002)
Dreaming To Some Purpose (2004)
World Famous UFOs (2005)
Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals (2006)
Crimes of Passion: The Thin Line Between Love and Hate (2006)
The Angry Years: The Rise and Fall of the Angry Young Men (2007)
Manhunters:Criminal Profilers & Their Search for the World's Most Wanted Serial Killers (2007)