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DESCENT INTO HELL (248 pp.)-Charles Williams-Pellegrini & Cudahy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Vial of the Apocalypse | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Someone else did. And thereby hangs the tale told in Descent into Hell by Charles Williams (TIME, Nov. 8), perhaps the most remarkable English mystical writer since William Blake, a man whose life and work have had strong influence in the religious thinking of such leading British intellectuals as T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis and Dorothy Sayers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Vial of the Apocalypse | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Descent into Hell. It is also one of the most frightening books ever written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Vial of the Apocalypse | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Lily Sammile is Lilith, the female demon of Jewish folklore, the first wife of Adam, who wanders the world caressing men with her gritty hand, kissing them with her dusty mouth, luring them to the forgotten cemetery shed, which is the Gatehouse of Hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Vial of the Apocalypse | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Sustaining Love. Descent into Hell is a development of Williams' reverent conviction that men must bear one another's burdens; that the universe of humanity includes both the living and the dead; that lost and drifting spirits among the dead may still be sustained by the charitable love of living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Vial of the Apocalypse | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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