War in Heaven

(1930) [Williams' first novel. The Holy Grail ("Graal", as Williams calls it), surfaces in England, with exciting consequences. "...because it is a much younger Williams writing in the Twenties, we find many more sardonic and outrageously funny lines here than in the later books... We could attend a Black Mass with Charles Williams and come away with him laughing through our bewitchment." (Richard McLaughlin, Saturday Review, 1 October 1949)