An intense, imaginative, and magnetic person, Charles Williams was one of the most gifted and original Christian writers of the twentieth century. He was a member of the Inklings, the group of creative Oxford intellectuals that included C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. This reader brings together three of Charles Williams best-known novels. These powerful stories represent the high point of Williams's genius and illustrated the mystically and theologically oriented themes so characteristic of his work. Whether read independently or as a loose trilogy, these psychological thrillers each explore our very real relation to the supernatural world lying just behind the appearances of everyday life. The first selection, Descent into Hell (1937), is arguably Williams's greatest novel. It is a multidimensional story about people who close themselves in with self-centeredness until they are no longer able to love. The result is hell on earth. Many Dimensions (1931) offers a haunting look at the evil that penetrates the human heart.Replete with rich religious imagery, this tale explores the nature of predestination and free will and the ends to which they lead. In War in Heaven (1930), Williams gives a contemporary setting to the traditional story of the search for the Holy Grail. This eerily disturbing work takes readers on a Bunyanesque journey through the shadowy places of the human mind.