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Ritual in the Dark
View on WikipediaRitual in the Dark is the 1960 debut novel of the English writer Colin Wilson. It follows the would-be writer Gerard Sorme as he befriends a small wealthy social circle in Whitechapel, but in the shadows a sinister evil stalks. The story took inspiration from the Jack the Ripper case.[1]
Key Information
Time wrote that Wilson should shelve his attempt to become a novelist.[2] Kirkus Reviews wrote about the novel's components, which include murder and existentialist philosophy: "Beyond its echoes of Oscar Wilde, Huysmans, Graham Greene, is the voice of current protest, and, with its subject and its author, this makes a powerful combination—sex and sexuality, perversions".[3]
Sorme was loosely based on Wilson, who wrote two more novels about him: Man Without a Shadow (1963) and The God of the Labyrinth (1970).[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Tredell, Nicolas (1982). The Novels of Colin Wilson. pp. 48–59. ISBN 0854780351.
- ^ "Books: The Abominable Superman". Time. 7 March 1960. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
- ^ "Ritual in the Dark". Kirkus Reviews. 1 March 1960. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
- ^ Lachman, Gary (2016). Beyond the Robot. pp. 112–113. ISBN 9780698184312.
Further reading
[edit]- Kumar, Sanjay (2021). "A Beginning to Existing: Understanding Colin Wilson's 'Outsiderism' in 'Ritual In The Dark' - An Eastern Perspective". International Journal of Language and Literary Studies. 3 (4): 37–48. doi:10.36892/ijlls.v3i4.706.
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