The Space Vampires

 

I read a bit of Colin Wilson in my early twenties. I love The Outsider and The Occult. They were pretty good. I have yet to find a fictional book of his that matches up to those books. I read Ritual in the Dark and that was ok but nothing really compelling. I decided to give this one a chance since it had an amusing story about it. John Fowles said that a movie based on his book The Magus was the worst movie made. Colin Wilson said that the movie Lifeforce just beat that. (Lifeforce was based on this book.) It's about a race of creatures who take over human bodies. It talks about vampirism and mentions how this the transfer is affected through sex. Colin Wilson spends way too much time philosophizing about the space vampires. In The Outsider philosophy was fine but come on this book is called The Space Vampires. It wasn't what I wanted. It runs of steam but at least the first 1/3 of the book is entertaining.