Francis Paul Wilson (1946 -) is an American writer of fantastic novels.

After having begun in the career while writing for the famous magazine Analog , it becomes famous in 1981 with the black Fortress which reveals it with the general public. Adapted to the cinema by Michael Mann, this novel told the mishaps of a detachment of S confronted with a malefic creature in a keep of Transylvania. It shown there of a stylistic effectiveness and an originality which are worth from the start to him the favors of the amateurs of the kind.

Large amateur of pulps and novels of adventures, it then writes in 1984 the Tomb in which its character fetish Repairman Jack appears, kind of Mac Gyver fantastic and romantic to which it will not fail to take an action pursuant.

He is also the author of thrillers such as Brain death or Blood ties and Mirages (written in collaboration with J. Costello).

See too

• the black Fortress , film carried out by Michael Mann in 1983.