The Brussels Journal on Colin Wilson

Several days ago, "The Brussels Journal" published this lengthy examination of Colin Wilson, a name hopefully familiar to those who have tread beyond H.P. Lovecraft into other writers of the Cthulhu Mythos. Wilson, a British writer who built up a career equally renowned for philosophy and fiction, published several notable pieces of Lovecraftian horror in previous decades. His books The Mind Parasites and The Return of the Lloigor won the approval of many Lovecraft readers for their originality amid the fledgling Cthulhu Mythos genre, and for their incorporation of Wilson's own philosophical notions into the stories, despite his harsh treatment of Lovecraft as a writer elsewhere.

While the piece from "The Brussels Journal" mostly concentrates on Wilson's place in philosophy, it touches on his Lovecraftian works at the end. Wilson fans will also find a great deal in the article to pacify any curiosity about Wilson's philosophical views and how they manifested in his fiction. Though his past opinions rendered him at odds with Lovecraft the writer, it's unlikely Colin Wilson himself failed to note his similar affection for crafting his stories as vehicles for expressing a very specific worldview.

-Grim Blogger