Aspects of Power Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| War in Heaven |
1930 |
Buy |
| Many Dimensions |
1930 |
Buy |
| The Place of the Lion |
1931 |
Buy |
| The Greater Trumps |
1932 |
Buy |
| Shadows of Ecstasy |
1933 |
Buy |
| Descent into Hell |
1937 |
Buy |
| All Hallows’ Eve |
1945 |
Buy |
Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| A Charles Williams Reader |
2000 |
Buy |
Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Reason and Beauty in the Poetic Mind |
1933 |
Buy |
| James I |
1934 |
Buy |
| The New Book of English Verse |
1935 |
Buy |
| Rochester |
1935 |
Buy |
| Henry VII |
1937 |
Buy |
| The Descent of the Dove |
1939 |
Buy |
| The Forgiveness of Sins |
1942 |
Buy |
| The Figure of Beatrice |
1943 |
Buy |
| Arthurian Torso |
1948 |
Buy |
| The Image of the City |
1958 |
Buy |
| William Tyndale |
1969 |
Buy |
| Outlines of Romantic Theology with Which is Reprinted, Religion & Love in Dante |
1978 |
Buy |
| He Came Down from Heaven |
1984 |
Buy |
| Letters to Lalage |
1989 |
Buy |
| Essential Writings in Spirituality and Theology |
1993 |
Buy |
| The Detective Fiction Reviews of Charles Williams, 1930-1935 |
2003 |
Buy |
| Outlines of Romantic Theology |
2005 |
Buy |
| Poetry at Present |
2008 |
Buy |
| Queen Elizabeth |
2010 |
Buy |
| Stories of Great Names |
2010 |
Buy |
| Flecker of Dean Close |
2013 |
Buy |
| A Short Life of Shakespeare with the Sources |
2016 |
Buy |
Plays#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Collected Plays |
1963 |
Buy |
| Three Plays |
2009 |
Buy |
| A Myth of Shakespeare |
2010 |
Buy |
| The Chapel of the Thorn |
2014 |
Buy |
| Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury |
2015 |
Buy |
| The House by the Stable - A Christmas Play |
2018 |
Buy |
| Grab and Grace or It’s the Second Step - Companion and Sequel to The House by the Stable |
2018 |
Buy |
| Seed of Adam - A Nativity Play |
2018 |
Buy |
| Seed of Adam and Other Plays |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Death of Good Fortune - A Christmas Play |
2018 |
Buy |
Poetry Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Poems of Conformity |
1917 |
Buy |
| Divorce |
1920 |
Buy |
| Windows of Night |
1924 |
Buy |
| Heroes & Kings |
1930 |
Buy |
| The Arthurian Poems of Charles Williams |
1944 |
Buy |
| Taliessin Through Logres |
1969 |
Buy |
| Taliessin through Logres, The Region of the Summer Stars, and Arthurian Torso |
1974 |
Buy |
| Charles Williams |
1991 |
Buy |
| The Silver Stair |
2011 |
Buy |
| Taliessin Through Logres and the Region of the Summer Stars |
2016 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Masques of Amen House |
2000 |
Buy |
Charles Walter Williams (1886-1945) was a British writer who worked at Oxford University Press for most of his life and produced a large body of work across several forms. He was a member of the Inklings, the Oxford literary group that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Lewis considered Williams’s novels among the best supernatural fiction in English.
Williams’s seven novels, grouped as the Aspects of Power series (1930-1945), blend Christian theology with thriller plots. War in Heaven (1930) is built around the Holy Grail, Many Dimensions (1930) around the Stone of Solomon, and The Greater Trumps (1932) around Tarot cards. Descent into Hell (1937) and All Hallows’ Eve (1945) are often cited as his strongest work in the form.
His poetry career began with Poems of Conformity (1917) and reached its peak with the Arthurian cycles Taliessin Through Logres and The Region of the Summer Stars. His non-fiction includes biographies of James I, Henry VII, Rochester, and Queen Elizabeth, theological studies like The Descent of the Dove (1939) and He Came Down from Heaven, and literary criticism including The Figure of Beatrice (1943), a study of Dante. His plays, many on religious subjects, include Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury and several Christmas dramas.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Charles Walter Williams written?
Charles Walter Williams has written 51 books across six series.
What was Charles Walter Williams's first book?
Charles Walter Williams’s first book is Poems of Conformity, published in 1917.
What type of books did Charles Walter Williams write?
Williams worked across fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction. His seven Aspects of Power novels (1930-1945) are supernatural thrillers blending theology with adventure. His poetry, especially the Arthurian cycle Taliessin Through Logres, draws on myth and Christian imagery. His non-fiction ranges from biographies of English monarchs to theological works like The Descent of the Dove and The Figure of Beatrice.