The Weird and Wild Mind of Charles Williams
A Tour of His Seven Novels, Called ‘Supernatural Thrillers’ by T.S. Eliot
Want an odd gimmick for a novel? Try having the Platonic forms—those Ideals from which all creatures take their shape and owe their being—burst into the humdrum of a sleepy English village, begin claiming accidental victims, and threaten earthly existence itself.
It worked for C.S. Lewis. Charles Williams’s The Place of the Lion impressed Lewis as “reall…
