Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.Charles Williams was a British writer best known for his Christian fantasy novels. Williams' novels take place in the contemporary world which is similar to the works of his good friend C.S. Lewis. This collection includes the following:NOVELS:...

One man must save the human race from total destruction when a small British village is invaded by a terrifying host of archetypal creatures released from the spiritual worldIn the small English town of Smetham on the outskirts of London, a wall separating two worlds has broken down. The meddling and meditations of a local mage, Mr. Berringer, has caused a rift in the barrier between the corporeal and the spiritual, and now all hell has broken loose. Strange creatu...

“War in Heaven” is a 1930 novel by Charles W. S. Williams. Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886 – 1945) was a British theologian, novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was also a member of the “The Inklings”, a literary discussion group connected to the University of Oxford, England. They were exclusively literary enthusiasts who championed the merit of narrative in fiction and concentrated on writing fantasy. He was given an scholarship to University College London, but was...

In post-Blitz London, humanity's last hope of defeating a powerful magician's insidious plans lies with a ghost trapped in a surreal city of the deadDuring World War II, soon after Ms. Lester Furnival married her beloved Richard, she died in an accident. Now she wanders the dark and lonely streets with her friend Evelyn. An empty mirror image of the London she once knew, the city is a place where time has lost its rules and structure, and where Lester can catch hear...

“What’s Done in the Dark” provides the most current approach available for understanding twenty-eight reasons why infidel occurs and which of twenty-eight possible types of affairs are involved. Author D. Charles Williams, PhD, provides a common-sense, four-stage, twelve-action-step path to recovery and helps couples establish healthy marital boundaries. Fifty homework exercises designed to improve couple relationships and communication strategies are also included.“What’s Done in t...

A satanic conspiracy threatens mankind when the Holy Grail is found in an English country church in this classic metaphysical thriller.An unidentified body lies lifeless in the offices of a British publishing house. Soon after it is discovered, an urgent request from an author arrives by post, pleading for the deletion of an important paragraph from an upcoming publication. These unlikely incidents mark the beginning of a secret war waged in the English countryside ...

One of the most ambitious essays in the interpretation of Dante our time has seen...his interpretation of the role of Beatrice is a subtle and individual one. Charles Williams was one of the finest -- not to mention one of the most unusual -- theologians of the twentieth century. His mysticism is palpable -- the unseen world interpenetrates ours at every point, and spiritual exchange occurs all the time, unseen and largely unlooked for. His novels are legend, and as a member of the Inkling...

This book is perhaps the best introduction to the subject of witchcraft that is neither hysterical nor Wiccan propaganda. Thus it is a rare read on the subject. Charles Williams provides an esoteric and intellectually provocative history of witchcraft and magic in the Christian era. As readable as a thriller but full of profound theological insight, Williams' book explores the sombre and lurid history of the reaction to witchcraft as well as its most famous cases.

War in Heaven is a novel written by Charles Williams and first published in 1930. It is a supernatural thriller that revolves around the quest for the Holy Grail, the legendary cup used by Jesus Christ during the Last Supper, and its significance in the spiritual realm.The story is set in an English village called Fardles, where a young clergyman named Dr. John Redpath discovers that the local church's ancient altar stone is in fact the Grail. Howe...

Descent Into Hell is a novel written by Charles Williams, first published in 1937. Williams is less well known than his fellow Inklings, such as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Like some of them, however, he wrote a series of novels which combine elements of fantasy fiction and Christian symbolism. Forgoing the detective fiction style of most of his earlier supernatural novels, most of the story's action is spiritual or psychological in nature. It fits the "theological thriller" descript...

A charismatic and immortal leader rises up out of Africa to violently alter humankind's destinyThere is great unrest on the African continent, and explosive uprisings that originated there are finding their way to Britain's shores. A man named Nigel Considine, a charismatic leader who calls himself the High Executive, is raising a great army to conquer the world. Universal love is his stated goal, to be achieved through violence if necessary, and his dogma has unlea...

Man keeps a comfortable house, a mistress called Pride and a friend named Hell. Then Joseph and Mary ask for room in his stable, and he has a single night in which to choose.Charles Williams (1886–1945) wrote The House by the Stable in the autumn of 1939 for Ruth Spalding's Oxford company, and once it had been staged the players took it into halls, garages, schools and air-raid shelters. It asks for six actors and almost nothing else. Pride and her brother...