These "supernatural thrillers" are all set in the modern world but present human life as being controlled by unseen powers that operate at another level. The Novels of Charles Williams is a collection of seven gripping novels. Williams left behind him a considerable number of books which should endure, because there is nothing else that is like them or could take their place." - T. he communicates this experience that he has had. Williams is telling us about a world of experience known to him. And this peculiarity gave him that profound insight into Good and Evil, into the heights of Heaven and the depths of Hell, which provides both the immediate thrill, and the permanent message of novels. To him the supernatural was perfectly natural, and the natural was also supernatural. "I want to make clear that these novels of Williams. There are layers and layers-first the pleasure that any good fantasy gives me: then, what is rarely (tho' not so very rarely) combined with this, the pleasure of a real philosophical and theological stimulus: thirdly, characters: fourthly, what I neither expected nor desired, substantial edification." - C. " I have just read your " Place of the Lion" and it is to me one of the major literary events of my life.
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