War in Heaven
core novel 1930 The Novels of Charles Williams
Record
| First published | 1930 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.82 (2,078 ratings, collected 2026-11-01) |
| Internal chronology | 1 |
Synopsis
In a London publishing house, a dead body is found in an office, and the police are baffled. The trail leads to Gregory Persimmons, a wealthy publisher who is quietly a practitioner of black magic. At the same time the archaeologist Sir Giles Tumulty has traced the Holy Grail to a chalice in the church of a sleepy village near London, Fardles. Persimmons wants it for his own dark purposes. Against him stand the village's Archdeacon, a mild Anglican priest, together with a small band of allies. As the rival parties converge on the little parish, the question is who will take possession of the cup and what each hopes to do with it. The story mixes detective-story pacing with church ritual and occult menace.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Novels of Charles Williams
- Series: The Novels of Charles Williams core; position 1 of 7 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Charles Williams
Notes
- 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 1 of 7: next Many Dimensions (1931)
Sources
- Black Gate: The Novels of Charles Williams
- Wikipedia: Charles Williams
- Wikipedia: War in Heaven (novel)
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