All Hallows Eve Paperback Charles Williams

from kukulaj

This is a morality tale in the form of a ghost story. My copy has a 1948 copyright. There is an introduction by T. S. Eliot which informs us that Mr. Williams died a few days after the German surrender in 1945. Our villain is a Jewish Satanic wizard who is working on some necromantic method to be...

from jen.e.moore

I'm fairly certain I liked it, although this is a strange book which I actually had some difficulty connecting with. The characters are a little thinly drawn for my taste, but the prose is reminiscent of C.S. Lewis - which is fair enough, as he and Williams were members of the same writing group....

from DinadansFriend

Another Surreal novel, this one by a friend of J.R.R. Tolkien's. Quite religious, dealing with a fairly clever but not reflective woman who falls into the hands of a quite austere but evil magician, Simon. Her sacrifice at the date of the title is the plot we follow. C.S. Lewis does this kind of ...

from SeriousGrace

This is a love story that thrives beyond the grave. Lester and Richard were married only the day before when Lester is killed by a falling airplane. What are the chances? Now Lester is caught between two very different worlds - the living world where Richard still walks about grieving and Lester'...