Most Popular Books by Colin Wilson

Vampires from outer space suck the body''s life force with a kiss of death.

London is in the grip of a terrifying serial killer who is murdering women in Whitechapel in a manner reminiscent of the Jack the Ripper slayings 70 years earlier. Against this backdrop, Gerard Sorme, a lonely young Londoner, is at work on his first novel, in which he intends to express his belief in the meaninglessness of life. His own life begins to change in unexpected ways when he begins an intimate friendship with Austin Nunne, a wealthy and charming gay man with violent sexual desires. As the murders continue and the investigation unfolds, Gerald suddenly finds himself haunted by a terrible suspicion: could his new friend have anything to do with the crimes? Colin Wilson''s classic first novel, Ritual in the Dark (1960), remains a chilling page-turner, a brilliant fusion of thrilling murder mystery and existential philosophy. This edition features a foreword by Wilson scholar and bibliographer Colin Stanley and the author''s introduction to the 1993 edition. ''Brilliant . . . Magnificent! Murder mystery raised to major art!'' - Chicago Sun-Times ''Exhilarating reading'' - The Listener ''What an unforgettable, really great evocation. Terrible and tragic insight ... an important book'' - Sunday Times

A brilliant German-Jewish philosopher, in London, is suspected of being a master criminal.

Forty years and 1,400 executions after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty constitutional, eminent political scientist Frank Baumgartner and a team of younger scholars have collaborated to assess the empirical record and provide a definitive account of how the death penalty has been implemented. A Statistical Portrait of the Death Penalty shows that all the flaws that caused the Supreme Court to invalidate the death penalty in 1972 remain and indeed that new problems have arisen. Far from "perfecting the mechanism" of death, the modern system has failed.

Ogni mese torna il meglio dei fumetti legati a Star Wars! In questo numero: con Zayne prigioniero della Repubblica, è la volta di scoprire di più sul passato di Jarael e Camper e del mondo in cui sono nati. E poi sarà battaglia nello spazio fra l’armata Yuuzhan Vong, la Nuova Repubblica e persino l’Impero. Boba Fett è morto. Chi è che sta eliminando uno a uno i membri della squadra che l’ha ucciso?

Ace Second World War pilot, Robert ''Battler'' Britton, and his crew are dispatched to an American airstrip in North Africa to spearhead a joint action against Hitler''s war machine. Now they need to survive the taunts, the threats, the assaults - and that''s just from the Yanks!

A collection of tales of the world''s worst crooks and conmen, the criminals who got away, the world''s most amazing heists and robberies, the most nauseating mobsters and history''s most horrific murders for which no murderer was ever found.

Recounts a variety of cases in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and elsewhere, including the death of Julia Wallace as told by Dorothy Sayers and the story of Ma Barker

In this fascinating, in-depth account of the hunt for serial killers, Colin Wilson, one of the world''s leading authorities on the subject, examines the ways they can be tracked down and caught, from the tried-and-true methods of the early 20th century to the high-tech processes in use today.

One of the most infamous decades in the history of murder, the 1930s brought to the fore such infamous criminals as Peter Kurten, the most sadistic killer in the annals of crime; Buck Ruxton, the dismembering doctor; & Albert Fish, the first convicted cannibal killer. You''ll meet Bruno Hauptmann, the man who kidnapped the Lindburgh baby, & Tony Mancini, acquitted of a horrifying murder, but who confessed afterwards in the pages of a national newspaper. These & many more shocking & fascinating stories of killers & the men who caught them combine in this portrait of a classic era of crime.