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Ritual in the Dark
1960 novel by Colin Wilson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ritual 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]
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]
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