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During the 1930s, a group of Oxford academics set up an informal literary discussion society, The Inklings, which considered, among other topics, the nature and practice of fantasy writing, then widely regarded as a somewhat juvenile mode of literary expression. After The Inklings went their separate ways in the late 1940s, two of them, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, achieved international popularity and became enormously influential in the fantasy genre, though it would be unfair to blame them for the multi-volume sagas and chronicles which have followed in their wake. Reading Aren Roukema's Esotericism and Narrative, however, I could not help wondering what fantasy would look like today if it had taken its lead from the less well-known Inkling, Charles Williams, a marginal but fascinating figure who produced a series of novels during the 1930s and 1940s which sought to infuse popular forms with arcane knowledge. From The War in Heaven (1930) to All Hallows Eve (1945, the year of his death), Williams mixed elements of the thriller, the romance and the mystery with ideas taken from his esoteric and religious studies. While his contemporary, Dennis Wheatley, served up a delirious an

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Author

Freeman, Nick

Publisher

Brill (ISSN 1567-9896)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)