Colin Wilson

By Andrew Porter: Author Colin Wilson, 82, died Thursday, December 5. He had suffered a stroke in June 2012 which left him unable to speak.

His SF novel The Space Vampires was adopted for the screen by Tobe Hooper as Lifeforce, with a beautiful space vampiress who comes to the UK and wreaks havoc upon the British public.

Before that he was known for nonfiction work including The Occult: A History, with interpretations on Aleister Crowley, Helena Blatavsky, Franz Mesmer, Grigori Rasputin and others, also, an unsympathetic biography of Crowley, Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast.