Charles Williams wrote his first six novels during the period be­tween the two world wars, a period of great economic, political, social, and religious upheaval. At a time when other British writers, especially of the younger generation, were in flux, isolated in/by "the immense panorama of futility and anarchy that is contemporary history" and trying to express that experience as well as attempting to find and establish some value, are Charles Williams's novels merely "thrillers", escape reading for the lost masses, which he dashed off quickly in order to supplement his income? Or do they, in fact, reveal more?