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Also Known As	Colin Henry Wilson
Born	June 26, 1931 • Leicester • England
Died	December 5, 2013 (aged 82) • Saint Austell • England
Notable Works	“A Casebook of Murder” • “Necessary Doubt” • “Poltergeist!” • “Religion and the Rebel” • “Starseekers” • “The Mind Parasites” • “The Outsider” • “The Quest for Wilhelm Reich”

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