All Hallows' Eve

Name: All Hallows' Eve
Author: Charles Williams

core novel 1945 The Novels of Charles Williams

Record

First published	1945
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	3.80 (1,428 ratings, collected 2026-11-01)
Internal chronology	7

Synopsis

Lester Furnival, a young woman, finds herself on Westminster Bridge in a still and silent London, after she and her friend Evelyn have been killed when an aeroplane crashed. Evelyn refuses to accept what has happened and complains constantly, while Lester slowly begins to understand where they are. In the living world, Lester's husband Richard visits his friend, the painter Jonathan Drayton, who is engaged to Betty, a former schoolmate of Lester. Betty's mother belongs to the following of Simon Leclerc, a charismatic religious leader who has recently come back from America. Jonathan's portrait of Simon unsettles the household. The two worlds, of the dead and the living, begin to draw together around him.

Where it sits

Universe: The Novels of Charles Williams
Series: The Novels of Charles Williams core; position 7 of 7 in the series' recorded order
Author: Charles Williams

Notes

Published with an introduction by T. S. Eliot in the 1948 US edition.
From the series record (The Novels of Charles Williams): Seven standalone supernatural novels set in the modern world, published between 1930 and 1945, listed in order of publication.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.

Reading order, within the series The Novels of Charles Williams: position 7 of 7: previous Descent into Hell (1937)

Sources

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