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War in Heaven (Paperback, Main)
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'There are no novels anywhere quite like them . . . He really
believes in what he is talking about.' That was T. S. Eliot writing
about the seven novels of Charles Williams. How to describe them?
Again, probably in T. S. Eliot's words, 'They may be described as
supernatural thrillers; ''popular'' novels in the best sense, by a
man who had something important and quite individual to say. When
we say ''thrillers'' we mean that their plots are adventurous and
breathless, their scenes sometimes entrancing and sometime
horrifying; and when we say ''supernatural'' we mean that Williams
had a real experience of the supernatural world to communicate. He
had a kind of extended spiritual sense: he was like a man who can
perceive shades of colour, or hear tones beyond the ordinary range.
The theme of all his novels is the struggle between good and evil;
and as an interpreter of the mystical experience he was unique in
his generation. He excels in descriptions of strange experiences
such as many people have had once or twice in their lives and have
been unable to put into words. There are pages also which describe,
with a frightful clarity, the deterioration and damnation of a
human soul; and pages which describe the triumphant struggle
towards salvation. War in Heaven was the first in the sequence,
published in 1930, and the most conventional of them. It relates
the discovery of The Holy Grail in a country church and of the
struggle between good and evil forces to possess it. There are
detailed and convincing accounts of black magic. The author
belonged to A. E. Waite's Christian Rosicrucian order, The
Fellowship of the Rosy Cross and was therefore conversant with
esoteric rites. All seven novels are being reissued in Faber Finds:
War in Heaven, Many Dimensions, The Place of the Lion, The Greater
Trumps, Shadows of Ecstasy, Descent into Hell and All Hallows' Eve.
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