The Mind Parasites by Colin Wilson, in two editions from Oneiric Press, is part of the collection at the Reading Room.

“‘Is it not time that we create a new type of novel? I think of a hatchet biting into a tree and making the chips fly, not an evasion of reality or a description of it, but an attack on it … What is needed is an existential realism. Like the social realism of the Soviets, yet biting much deeper; its attitude is not passive or pessimistic. In a qualified sense, it might be called practical; it wishes to change things. What it wishes to change I prefer to leave unsaid, it can be inferred from this book.’ — Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson has blended the dark vision of an H. P. Lovecraft, the power of an H. G. Wells and his own unique philosophy of evolutionary existentialism in a stunningly powerful story of imagination. The Mind Parasites is a truly dangerous novel, dangerous in the sense that the eminent British philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead, speaks of in his Adventures in Ideas: ‘It is the business of the future to be dangerous … The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur …'”— back cover