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All Hallows' Eve (Paperback)

by Charles Williams (Author)
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  • Paperback: 296 pages
  • Publisher: Regent College Publishing (11 Nov 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1573831107
  • ISBN-13: 978-1573831109
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 12.4 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 257,172 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A supernatural, spiritual Christian thriller set in an alternative London. Charles Williams was one of the intimate friends of fellow Inklings C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien during the 1940s in wartime Oxford, and like them he set out to emulate the Creator in designing a whole literary world. His vision, though, is darker, but with a joyous, reconciling ending in the case of this book at least. It is an intellectually and emotionally demanding read, has elements of horror and the occult about it, and perhaps politics and psychology as well. It is a read unlike any other. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars It's a ghost story Jim, but not as we know it, 25 May 2001
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This review is from: All Hallow's Eve (Hardcover)
Published in 1945 and still in print, this is the last of the novels of Charles Williams, who along with J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis was one of the Oxford literary group the Inklings. The recent increase in popularity of his fiction, initially boosted by his association with the Inklings, is probably due to the current success of the Frank Peretti thrillers, and the LaHaye-Jenkins 'Left Behind' series. However, in contrast to the current populists Mr Williams is intellectually quite a demanding read.

All Hallows Eve is another Williams ghost story, gently told in his own highly unorthodox style. Two young women have been killed in an accident in the aftermath of the WWII air raids on London, but their ghostly participation in the story is as real as that of any of the living people. It is probably fair to say that this novel, as with most Charles Williams fiction, is not recommended for the overly sensitive person, and could easily be misinterpreted the overly hasty.

Simon LeClerk is a powerful mage, more a Saruman than a Gandalf, and his plan is domination of this world and - more worryingly - any other that he can access. His adoring acolytes form the powerbase of his support for a new world religion. Betty, daughter of one of these acolytes, is the unwilling dupe of the magician, and the key subject in his most daring and horrible experiment. An artist is the bereaved husband of Evelyn, one of the ghosts, and a civil servant is Betty's intended husband.

The characters have depth and robust individual style. While many an author can paint real villains doing convincingly bad things, Williams is unusual in that his good characters and their goodness are equally if not more convincing. Their goodness is genuinely felt and is strongly attractive. There is no hint that the villains have all the fun or that the author really has little idea of how to portray true goodness, or even what it is.

From this novel I also gained a valuable insight into the true nature and function of art. Rather like 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', two of the artist's paintings play a pivotal part in the story. The artist manages in one picture to catch and portray something of a hidden truth about the city of London, and in the other something about the magician himself (who approves of the picture). As these things could not be captured by any mere photograph, the art has to say what can best be said, or perhaps only be said, in a painting.

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