Charles Williams

Author Information
Charles Williams's Latest Book

Newest Release

  • Bibliography:
    37 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1930
  • Latest Book:
    January 2019
  • Author Rating:
  • Share:

Full Series List in Order

In His Very Steps

1 - In His Very Steps: What Does the Bible Say? (Nov-2011)

Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • War in Heaven

    A satanic conspiracy threatens mankind when the Holy Grail is found in an English country church in this classic metaphysical thriller. An unidentified body lies lifeless in the offices of a British publishing house. Soon after it is discovered, an u...

  • Many Dimensions

    This penetrating study of evil in the human heart revolves around a mysterious Stone of Many Dimensions, by which one can move at will through space, time, and thought. Replete with rich religious imagery, "Many Dimensions" explores the relation betw...

  • The Diamond Bikini

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Raised at the racetrack, a boy comes to live on a Texas farm. Billy doesn't know how to read a book, but give him a racing form and he can tell you everything about a pony that you'd ever want to know. He and his father live on the road, traveling fr...

  • Girl Out Back

  • The Sailcloth Shroud

  • Aground

    A widow and a charter captain scour the ocean for a stolen yacht When Ingram lands in Miami, he doesn’t even have time to finish his bath before the police come knocking. The out-of-work charter captain has just returned from Nassau, where he wa...

  • All Hallow's Eve

    In post-Blitz London, humanity’s last hope of defeating a powerful magician’s insidious plans lies with a ghost trapped in a surreal city of the dead During World War II, soon after Ms. Lester Furnival married her beloved Richard, she died in an ...

  • Dead Calm

    John and Rae Ingram, alone on their honeymoon yacht in the mid-Pacific, are suddenly and incongruously confronted with a tragedy at sea: another ship sinking, its lone survivor a handsome young man who has had to bury his wife and another couple, dea...

  • The Wrong Venus

    The late Charles Williams is perhaps best known as a writer of taut action-adventure novels usually with a nautical tie in (Dead Calm, Scorpion Reef, etc). He also wrote the very compelling noir masterpiece entitled The Hot Spot. The Wrong Venus ther...



  • Confidentially Yours

    John Warren is preparing for an early morning duck hunt when he hears two shotgun blasts. Only later does he learn they were the sound of Dan Roberts’s death. Although it appears at first glance that the handsome young man killed himself, Warren an...

  • Man on the Run

    Pursued by the police, a desperate man fights to stay freeand stay alive It's raining hard when the man leaps off the train. He lands safely and creeps into town, praying he will find someplace to hide. It's nearly daylight, and the police are not ...

  • Nothing in Her Way

    Welcome to the roller-coaster world of professional con men - and the one wild beauty who can out-swindle and outwit them all. Utterly beautiful, smart as a whip, here is the most fascinating confidence woman in modern suspense fiction. Her name is C...

  • The Hot Spot

    A dark, brooding masterpiece of guilt, greed, and lust in a town ripe for felony.

    Madox wasn't all bad.  He was just half-bad.  But trap a man like Madox in a dead-end job in a stultifying small town, introduce him to a femme fatale like t...

  • Descent into Hell

    In this provocative, classic metaphysical thriller, a group of suburban amateur actors plagued by personal demons and terrors explore the pathways to heaven and hell Certain inhabitants of Battle Hill, a small community on the outskirts of London, ar...

  • Bradman

    BRADMAN is a masterly portrait of cricket's supreme batsman and Australia's greatest hero. Uniquely among biographers of Don Bradman, Charles Williams sets his subject's cricketing achievements within the context of a crucial period in the history o...

  • Shadows Of Ecstasy

    A charismatic and immortal leader rises up out of Africa to violently alter humankind’s destiny There is great unrest on the African continent, and explosive uprisings that originated there are finding their way to Britain’s shores. A man named N...

  • The Greater Trumps

    In this classic tale of spirituality, morality, and the occult, a dark plot to murder an unsuspecting Englishman who possesses the world’s rarest tarot deck unleashes uncontrollable elemental forces The original and most mystical of all playing-car...

  • River Girl

    Now here is Charles Williams' River Girl, in every way a giant of a book--the story of a man and a woman who met and knew instantly that not all the world would tear them apart. River Girl, first published in 1951 as "The Catfish Triangle," is a book...

  • A Touch of Death

    Hard Case Crime - 17

    A DEVASTATING DAMSEL AND A SIMPLE PLAN... When Lee Scarborough came upon the brunette sunbathing topless in her back yard, getting involved in a heist was the last thing on his mind. But somehow that's where he found himself--sneaking through a stra...



  • THE PHAETON CONTINUUM

  • In His Very Steps: What Does the Bible Say?

    In His Very Steps - 1

    Everyone thought someone was doing what needed to be done to help the poor and needy, but people were slipping through the cracks. A mother and her children are overlooked, and a child dies. Written for those who believe the Bible is the ultimate aut...

  • The Place of the Lion

    One man must save the human race from total destruction when a small British village is invaded by a terrifying host of archetypal creatures released from the spiritual world In the small English town of Smetham on the outskirts of London, a wall sep...

  • Charles Williams Omnibus - War in Heaven, Many Dimensions, The Place of the Lion, Shadows of Ecstasy, The Greater Trumps, Descen

    This book is an omnibus edition containing the seven novels that Charles Williams wrote as well as a short story that he wrote for the London Mercury: War in Heaven (1930) - The Holy Grail is discovered in a small country parish and becomes both a sa...

  • And the Deep Blue Sea

    A sailor stranded in the Pacific Ocean finds there are a million ways to die His life in pieces, Harry Goddard buys a thirty-two-foot sloop and sets out to sail the Pacific. He is a thousand miles from anywhere when his craft strikes an unseen obj...

  • The Big Bite

    An ex-football player and a crooked insurance man cook up a blackmail scheme Professional football player John Harlan is driving back from a lakeside cabin when a drunk driver named Cannon knocks him off the road. When he comes to, Harlan’s leg ...

  • The Concrete Flamingo

    A beautiful fraudster gives a drifter a chance at an irresistible score Jerry Forbes, on the run in Fort Lauderdale, is careful not to tell Marian Forsyth his real name. But Marian already knows his secrets. She’s been following him since Miami ...

  • Go Home, Stranger

    An engineer battles a small town to see his sister released from prison It takes Reno three days to get from Peru to the Gulf Coast, and when he gets to Waynesport he has only one stop to make: the city jail, where his sister is being held on a mu...

  • Man on a Leash

    A son searches for the men who killed his mysterious father Even at sixty-six, Gunnar Romstead was a tough old salt. It took several men to bring him down, and even after they’d bound his feet and hands he was still a threat. But finally the man...

  • Scorpion Reef

    Aboard a ghost ship, sailors discover a tale of treasure, lust, and murder When the tanker finds the yacht, she is far from land, adrift in the middle of the Caribbean. No one is onboard, but the hold is stuffed with cash, the coffeepot is still w...



  • Talk of the Town

    Stranded in a small town, a stranger falls for a suspected murderess Bored, divorced, and unemployed, Chatham is on his way to the Gulf of Mexico when he passes through a small town by the river. It’s a miserable little burg -- four stoplights a...

  • Big City Girl

    Her husband in jail, a desperate young woman takes refuge among sharecroppers Once, Cass Neely’s farm stretched across the entire valley, but decades of bad decisions and rotten luck have forced him to sell off nearly every inch. He and his son ...

  • Uncle Sagamore and His Girls

    It’s election season in Blossom County, and that means it’s time for moonshine Educated at the racetrack, Billy has never had a firm grip on his ABCs, but he sure knows how to read a racing form. When a family court judge threatens to put the ...

  • In Close Proximity

    On the cusp of what some have called the “New Age of Terrorism,” three brothers must come to terms with an unthinkable reality that invades their well-ordered existence. An ingenious, powerful, and untraceable stealth weapon, designed by a gifted...

  • Birth of a Lion

    Birth of a Lion is the first in a series of dark fantasy books. Leon is an aspiring gladiator, ready to test his skill and prove his worth in the upcoming Tournament of Ateon. Warriors from across the land will gather in the arena to determine who re...

  • Nothing in Her Way // River Girl

    NOTHING IN HER WAYWhen Michael Belen runs into the cherubic con man named Wolford Charles in New Orleans, he has no idea he had just opened the door to his ex-wife Cathy. She and Charles and Judd Bolton are working a con on a man named Goodwin, who h...

  • Aftermath

    In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, greed and corruption plague New Orleans... As 2007 begins, New Orleans is past due to begin its recovery from the devastation of the storm. A proposed real estate project in an impoverished minority neighborhoo...

  • Soggy Socks and Shoes

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Charles Williams has published 37 books.

Charles Williams does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Soggy Socks and Shoes, was published in January 2019.

The first book by Charles Williams, War in Heaven, was published in February 1930.

Yes. Charles Williams has 1 series.
Author Series
Publisher Series
Top Authors in Christian
No ads, please...

$20 / year

FictionDB Premium Membership

Subscribe