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In 1961 Colin Wilson published "The Strength To Dream", a treatise on literature and the imagination, in which he heavily criticized the American supernatural fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft . This brought him into contact with August Derleth of Arkham House - Lovecraft's primary publisher - who suggested that if Wilson thought such literature was so trite, he should try to write a "Lovecraftian" novel on his own. Wilson produced THE MIND PARASITES, which Derleth subsequently published under the Arkham House imprint. "Perhaps the most philosophically challenging Lovecraft pastiche ever written, The Mind Parasites uses key elements of Lovecraft's pseudo-mythology to express Wilson's own world view" - S.T. Joshi, in SIXTY YEARS OF ARKHAM HOUSE (1999)It starts like a jolly H.P Lovecraft fan fic yet the further it goes, the more topical it gets. The principal action takes place, right now, and to read about those "brain slugs" in the climes of rabid Russian is mildly educational, to say the least.Something is sucking the human mind dry! (And it has been for the last 200 years. . .) That's the horrific discovery made by Professor Gilbert Austin while excavating a sinister archaeological site in the wilds of Turkey. Who -- or what -- is responsible? The answer is: Mind Parasites - malignant beings who for over 200 years, have been lurking in the deepest layers of the human unconscious, sapping the very life-force of mankind. They have been steadily gaining a foothold on the planet. And now they threaten humanity's extinction.How can man fight them? With one weapon only: the brain itself, pushed to- & beyond- its limits. Pushed so far that humans can read each other's thoughts, that the moon can be shifted from its orbit by thought-power alone. Pushed so far that humans can at last join battle with the loathsome parasites on equal terms. . . Colin Wilson has blended Lovecraft's dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy & unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination.
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- Release Date 01/01/1973
- Authors Colin Wilson , Bob Haberfield
- Language English
- Companies Panther/Granada
- Format Kindle
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