History Creator / CharlesWilliams

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Lester. Through CharacterDevelopment and ThePowerOfLove she loses the jerk part.

* {{Necromancer}}: Simon le Clerk.

Williams also wrote two collections of poetry based on [[KingArthur Arthurian romance]], ''Taliessin through Logres'' and ''The Region of the Summer Stars.'' It's safe to say no one would read them now, except that Creator/CSLewis liked them and so wrote commentaries on them, making them understandable.

Charles Williams (1886–1945) was a British poet and novelist. He was close friend of Creator/CSLewis, and with Lewis and Creator/JRRTolkien was a member of UsefulNotes/TheInklings. Most of his novels were supernatural thrillers that explored the intersection of the natural, human world with the spiritual world. A number of authors have claimed him as an influence, most notably Creator/TimPowers. Williams was also a highly acclaimed literary scholar; and his study of [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante]], ''The Figure of Beatrice'', is still popular among scholars of Dante's work. Williams also authored a number of biographies, essays on theology and literary criticism, and plays.

Charles Williams (1886–1945) was a British poet and novelist. He was close friend of Creator/CSLewis, and with Lewis and Creator/JRRTolkien was a member of TheInklings. Most of his novels were supernatural thrillers that explored the intersection of the natural, human world with the spiritual world. A number of authors have claimed him as an influence, most notably Creator/TimPowers. Williams was also a highly acclaimed literary scholar; and his study of [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante]], ''The Figure of Beatrice'', is still popular among scholars of Dante's work. Williams also authored a number of biographies, essays on theology and literary criticism, and plays.

* ''Literature/AllHallowsEve'' (1945) Right after World War II, Father Simon le Clerk appears on the international scene, preaching a new religion or revival movement (the details never made clear). This was his cover for a bid at [[MessianicArchetype messiahship]], energized by HermeticMagic. His plot is discovered by a young widower, the ghost of his late wife, and their friends.

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* TimeIsDangerous: Something the villains in [[spoiler: 'Many Dimensions'']] learn [[FateWorseThanDeath rather graphically.]]

* ''Literature/WarInHeaven'' (1930) The HolyGrail exists and is presently in the parish church of the small English village of Fardles. This becomes known and the race is on between good guys and bad guys to get it.
* ''Literature/ManyDimensions'' (1931) 
Somewhere, there is a Sufi order that guards a small cubical stone. The Stone was once mounted in King Solomon's crown. It contains the Tetragrammaton, the Name of God. It grants the holder miraculous powers, but also brings divine judgment down on them. Watch it get passed back and forth between good guys and bad guys, and see the results.
* ''Literature/ThePlaceOfTheLion'' (1931) A small English village is plagued by mysterious destructive forces. This is because a retired philosopher has (accidentally or deliberately) called the Creator/{{Plato}}nic archetypes into the world, and they are absorbing their ectypes. E.g. Power gets personified as the titual lion, and starts prowling the neighborhood. Everywhere it goes, it soaks up all the examples of power, starting with electrical power and the strength of buildings. Then more personifications show up, like Cunning and Speed and Beauty. What do you do when the world starts to run out of adjectives?
* ''Literature/TheGreaterTrumps'' (1932) A young lawyer is delighted to discover that his fiancee's father has inherited the original [[TarotMotifs Tarot]] deck. The father doesn't know about the deck's magical power, but the young lawyer does, and is eager to get his hands on the deck and start experimenting.
* ''Literature/ShadowsOfEcstasy'' (1933) Nigel Considine, an English adventurer in the British African colonies, claims to have discovered, and to teach, a way of turning all the emotional energy created by joy, love, and beauty into strength and life, a path to immortality. He has started a political movement, the "African High Executive," dedicated to overthrowing not only colonialism bu "rationalist civilization." Does he really have the power and immortality he claims? And is he [[MessianicArchetype good]] or [[DarkMessiah evil]]?
* ''Literature/DescentIntoHell'' (1937) In the prosperous London suburb of Battle Hill, noted poet and playwrite Peter Stanhope helps a local theatre group put on a pretty little play. While they work at that, various living and dead people find their ways to heaven and hell, young women are terrorized by dopplegangers, a man meets the literal [[ImaginaryFriend Girl of His Dreams]], and we learn what Lilith is doing nowadays.

* TimeIsDangerous: Something the villains in [[spoiler: 'Many Dimensions'']] learn [[FateWorseThanDeath rather graphically.]]
** CessationOfExistence: What happens to one of the villains who tries to travel forward in time. Not as peaceful and painless a way to go as the trope name suggests, though.
** GroundhogDayLoop: The FateWorseThanDeath the other villain inflicts on himself by trying to travel back into the past.

* TarotMotifs: ''The Greater Trumps''

* LustObject: Wentworth views Pauline as one, his lust so great that when she spurns him he creates a succubus in her form.

* ''Literature/ShadowsOfEcstasy'' (1933) Nigel Considine, an English adventurer in the British African colonies, claims to have discovered, and to teach, a way of turning all the emotional energy created by joy, love, and beauty into strength and life, a path to immortality. He has started a political movement, the "African High Executive," dedicated to overthrowing not only colonialism bu "rationalist civilization." Does he really have the power and immortality he claims? And is he [[TheMessiah good]] or [[DarkMessiah evil]]?

* ''Literature/AllHallowsEve'' (1945) Right after World War II, Father Simon le Clerk appears on the international scene, preaching a new religion or revival movement (the details never made clear). This was his cover for a bid at [[TheMessiah messiahship]], energized by HermeticMagic. His plot is discovered by a young widower, the ghost of his late wife, and their friends.

** GroundhogDayLoop: The FateWorseThanDeath one of the villains inflicts on himself by trying to travel back into the past.

** CessationOfExistence: What happens to one of the villains who tries to travel forward in time.

* SelfInflictedHell: Evelyn and Wentworth create their own.

Williams also wrote two collections of poetry based on [[KingArthur Arthurian romance]], ''Taliessin through Logres'' and ''The Region of the Summer Stars.'' It's safe to say no one would read them now, except that CSLewis liked them and so wrote commentaries on them, making them understandable.

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* ''Literature/WarInHeaven'' (1930) The Holy Grail exists and is presently in the parish church of the small English village of Fardles. This becomes known and the race is on between good guys and bad guys to get it.

* ''Literature/ThePlaceOfTheLion'' (1931) A small English village is plagued by mysterious destructive forces. This is because a retired philosopher has (accidentally or deliberately) called the Creator/{{Plato}}ic archetypes into the world, and they are absorbing their ectypes. E.g. Power gets personified as the titual lion, and starts prowling the neighborhood. Everywhere it goes, it soaks up all the examples of power, starting with electrical power and the strength of buildings. Then more personifications show up, like Cunning and Speed and Beauty. What do you do when the world starts to run out of adjectives?
* ''Literature/TheGreaterTrumps'' (1932) A young lawyer is delighted to discover that his fiancee's father has inherited the original Tarot deck. The father doesn't know about the deck's magical power, but the young lawyer does, and is eager to get his hands on the deck and start experimenting.
* ''Literature/ShadowsOfEcstasy'' (1933) Nigel Considine, an English adventurer in the British African colonies, claims to have discovered, and to teach, a way of turning all the emotional energy created by joy, love, and beauty into strength and life, a path to immortality. He has started a political movement, the "African High Executive," dedicated to overthrowing not only colonialism bu "rationalist civilization." Does he really have the power and immortality he claims? And is he good or evil?

* ''Literature/AllHallowsEve'' (1945) Right after World War II, Father Simon le Clerk appears on the international scene, preaching a new religion or revival movement (the details never made clear). This was his cover for a bid at messiahship, energized by Hermetic magic. His plot is discovered by a young widower, the ghost of his late wife, and their friends.

* ''Literature/DescentIntoHell'' (1937) In the prosperous London suburb of Battle Hill, noted poet and playwrite Peter Stanhope helps a local theatre group put on a pretty little play. While they work at that, various living and dead people find their ways to heaven and hell, young women are terrorized by dopplegangers, a man meets the literal Girl of His Dreams, and we learn what Lilith is doing nowadays.
* ''Literature/AllHallowsEve'' (1945) Right after World War II, "Father Simon le Clerk" appears on the international scene, preaching a new religion or revival movement (the details never made clear). This was his cover for a bid at messiahship, energized by Hermetic magic. His plot is discovered by a young widower, the ghost of his late wife, and their friends.

* ''Literature/ThePlaceOfTheLion'' (1931) A small English village is plagued by mysterious destructive forces. This is because a retired philosopher has (accidentally or deliberately) called the [[Creator/Plato Platonic]] archetypes into the world, and they are absorbing their ectypes. E.g. Power gets personified as the titual lion, and starts prowling the neighborhood. Everywhere it goes, it soaks up all the examples of power, starting with electrical power and the strength of buildings. Then more personifications show up, like Cunning and Speed and Beauty. What do you do when the world starts to run out of adjectives?

* ''Literature/Shadows of Ecstasy'' (1933) Nigel Considine, an English adventurer in the British African colonies, claims to have discovered, and to teach, a way of turning all the emotional energy created by joy, love, and beauty into strength and life, a path to immortality. He has started a political movement, the "African High Executive," dedicated to overthrowing not only colonialism bu "rationalist civilization." Does he really have the power and immortality he claims? And is he good or evil?

* ''Literature/Many Dimensions'' (1931) 
Somewhere, there is a Sufi order that guards a small cubical stone. The Stone was once mounted in King Solomon's crown. It contains the Tetragrammaton, the Name of God. It grants the holder miraculous powers, but also brings divine judgment down on them. Watch it get passed back and forth between good guys and bad guys, and see the results.
* ''Literature/ThePlaceOfTheLion'' (1931) A small English village is plagued by mysterious destructive forces. This is because a retired philosopher has (accidentally or deliberately) called the Platonic archetypes into the world, and they are absorbing their ectypes. E.g. Power gets personified as the titual lion, and starts prowling the neighborhood. Everywhere it goes, it soaks up all the examples of power, starting with electrical power and the strength of buildings. Then more personifications show up, like Cunning and Speed and Beauty. What do you do when the world starts to run out of adjectives?

* ''Literature/WarInHeaven'' (1930)
* ''Literature/ThePlaceOfTheLion'' (1931)
* ''Literature/TheGreaterTrumps'' (1932)
* ''Literature/DescentIntoHell'' (1937)
* ''Literature/AllHallowsEve'' (1945)

Charles Williams (1886–1945) was a British poet and novelist. He was close friend of Creator/CSLewis, and with Lewis and Creator/JRRTolkien was a member of TheInklings. Most of his novels were supernatural thrillers that explored the intersection of the natural, human world with the spiritual world. A number of authors have claimed him as an influence, most notably TimPowers. Williams was also a highly acclaimed literary scholar; and his study of [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante]], ''The Figure of Beatrice'', is still popular among scholars of Dante's work. Williams also authored a number of biographies, essays on theology and literary criticism, and plays.

Charles Williams (1886 – 1945) was a British poet and novelist. He was close friend of Creator/CSLewis, and with Lewis and Creator/JRRTolkien was a member of TheInklings. Most of his novels were supernatural thrillers that explored the intersection of the natural, human world with the spiritual world. A number of authors have claimed him as an influence, most notably TimPowers. He was also a highly acclaimed literary scholar; and his study of [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante]], ''The Figure of Beatrice'', is still popular among scholars of Dante's work. He also authored a number of biographies, essays on theology and literary criticism, and plays.

Notable examples of Charles Williams' fictional work includes:

Charles Williams (1886 – 1945) was a British poet and novelist. He was close friend of Creator/CSLewis, and with Lewis and Creator/JRRTolkien was a member of The Inklings. Most of his novels were supernatural thrillers that explored the intersection of the natural, human world with the spiritual world. A number of authors have claimed him as an influence, most notably TimPowers. He was also a highly acclaimed literary scholar; and his study of [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante]], ''The Figure of Beatrice'', is still popular among scholars of Dante's work. He also authored a number of biographies, essays on theology and literary criticism, and plays.