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s/t: The Story of Forensics & Profiling Through the Hunt for the World's Worst MurderersThis fascinating, in-depth account of how serial killers are tracked down and caught is by Colin Wilson, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject. Wilson's thorough tome covers the tried-and-true ...
Colin Wilson tells the story of human violence from Peking Man to the Mafia - taking into account the calculated sadism of the Assyrians, the opportunism of the Greek pirates, the brutality that made Rome the 'razor king of the Mediterranean', the mindless destruction of the Vandals, the mass sla...
Space Vampires AKA(Lifeforce) By Colin Wilson 216 pagesOut of printThis science fiction horror crossover is remembered mostly from the Cannon films adaptation of the novel. The film while produced by Cannon films the schlock studio behind the cinematic ascension of Chuck Norris and the Sho Kosug...
Also titled The Space Vampires
The late Colin Wilson is one of those writers I can never decide about: when he's good, he's very, very good, and when he's bad, he's horrid. This book is certainly value for money; it's huge, and if you're at all interested in mysteries, the occult, and general "ghosty stuff" there should be som...
غالبية الرواية كانت كالتالي : يشربون كأساً و ياكلون ويشربون كوبا من الشاي ويتحدثون مبدين قلقهم على اوستن ويشربون كأسا مرة أخرى ومن ثم ينامون ويشربون وهم نيام ويعربون عن قلقهم على اوستن وهم نيام أيضا ويستيقظون لإكمال مشوارهم في الشرب والأكل والقلق على اوستن حسنا الرواية ليست سيئة ،لكن احداثها بطي...
If you're interested in Atlantis, lost civilizations, etc., then this book is definitely worth a read. I found the most interesting pieces to be the evidence of Antarctica as a potential site for Atlantis, complete with comparisons to ancient maps, the concept of the North Pole having moved twice...
Now that Colin Wilson is (no longer) dead, (I mistakenly started writing this review thinking that he was, until a kind reader pointed out that, in this space-time universe, I was sorrily mistaken), I feel safe saying that though I enjoyed reading his books I would hesitate to recommend him (as a...
An ordinary family house in a quiet West Country town - 25 Cromwell Street, Glouster. Now known throughout the world as the House of Horror: The home of Fred and Rosemary West and the scene of one of the most shocking cases of serial murder England has ever seen. United by acts of unimaginable cr...
Colin Wilson has explored the paranormal universe ever since he researched his first highly successful work, The Occult: he reveals the usually unseen powers of the human mind and discusses why he has become convinced that disembodied spirits do exist.*Sunday Telegraph
s/t: Recovering the Lost Wisdom of the Ancient World Recent discoveries of ancient water damage to the Sphinx have thrown the scientific world into a tizzy with the suggestion that Egypt's legendary monuments might be thousands of years older than previously believed. In his astonishing new bests...
I think most of us are perfectly willing to concede that they may exist. But we also feel that, whether they do or not, they are never likely to impinge on our personal lives. Now this could well be a major error. Ever since that early wave of sightings in 1947, their numb...
Their dress had the appearance of feathers: their feet were purple, their wings were brighter than gold; their hands whiter than snow.’1 This was the sight that greeted Enoch, Noah’s greatgrandfather, when he was awakened one night by two tall, shining creatures. The strangers flew Enoch to the s...
But one notable figure of the thirteenth century could also be regarded as the father of modern terrorism. His name was Hasan bin Sabbah, and he is responsible for the modern word “assassin”. The Assassins In the year 1273, the Venetian traveller Marco Polo passed through ...
Buchanan came to believe that every object in the universe has its whole history ‘recorded’ on it—rather like a videotape recording—and that the human mind has the power to ‘play back’ this recording.But before we proceed any further, let us consider a practical example.In the winter of 1921, a n...
It was a short review, but it said that it was probably the best authenticated case of reincarnation on record. So I hastened to buy the book, which was published by Spearman—a firm that seemed to have succeeded Rider as England's chief 'occult' publishers. The book arrive...
It was published by Trubner and Co., one of the most respectable names in publishing, so there could be no suggestion that it was a hoax. And the fact that the original text in Frisian (the language of Friesland, a part of northern Holland) was published opposite the English translation offered s...
The Countess Brockdorff, who was secretary of the Lodge, looked at him without any great curiosity. Rudolf Steiner was almost forty years old, and his accent had a touch of the lower-Austrian peasant. The pince-nez glasses, attached by a cord, gave him the look of an absent-minded schoolmaster. H...
But those who wish to learn more about it will have a frustrating time searching through the Collected Works; the General Index lists a few dozen references, but most of these turn out to be merely passing mentions. The earliest—and perhaps most complete—description of the method occurs in the es...
Ouspensky Five Success Gurdjieff and his followers left Essentuki at the beginning of August 1918, and made their way 100 miles southwest to the Black Sea. Gurdjieff had succeeded in escaping with his usual incredible effrontery. He had asked the Essentuki Soviet for permission to mount an archae...
The strange thing is that this remarkable case was never officially investigated—or even recorded—and that it came so close to being forgotten. At the time it occurred—in the late 1960s—it caused much local excitement and was reported in the newspapers; but when the haunting stopped, interest fad...
This recognition came about, it seems, through analysis of the steep rise in sex crime and ‘motiveless murder’. Ever since the 1960s, ‘multiple murder’ had been on the increase. The ‘Manson Family’ had killed at least nine people. Vaughn Greenwood, the ‘Skidrow Slasher’ of Los Angeles, killed nin...
CAPRA CHAPBOOK SERIES Henry Miller. ON TURNING EIGHTY. James D. Houston. AN OCCURRENCE AT NORMAN'S BURGER CASTLE. Anais Nin. PARIS REVISITED. Faye Kicknosway. O. YOU CAN WALK ON THE SKY? GOOD. Lawrence...
This is what Castalia knew nothing of; this is what his own life had lacked, When his pupil dives into the lake, Knecht follows him, fired, like Ibsen’s Master Builder, by youth and life. The cold and the effort overcome him, and he drowns. Still, in this last work (to date) Hesse has not drawn a...