Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
I want to read the book!
All characters reduced
The Place of the Lion - A Novel - cover

The Place of the Lion - A Novel

Charles Williams

Publisher: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy

  • 0
  • 1
  • 0

Summary

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 separating two worlds has broken down. The meddling and meditations of a local mage, Mr. Berringer, has caused a rift in the barrier between the corporeal and the spiritual, and now all hell has broken loose. Strange creatures are descending on Smethem—terrifying supernatural archetypes wreaking wholesale havoc, destruction, and death. Some residents, like the evil, power-hungry Mr. Foster, welcome the horrific onslaught. Others, like the cool and intellectual Damaris, refuse to accept what her eyes and heart tell her until it is far too late. Only a student named Anthony, emboldened by his unwavering love for Damaris, has the courage to face the horror head on. But if he alone cannot somehow restore balance to the worlds, all of humankind will surely perish in the impending apocalypse. An extraordinary metaphysical fantasy firmly based in Platonic ideals, The Place of the Lion is a masterful blending of action and thought by arguably the most provocative of the University of Oxford’s renowned Inklings—the society of writers in the 1930s that included such notables as C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Owen Barfield. With unparalleled imagination, literary skill, and intelligence, the remarkable Charles Williams has created a truly unique thriller, a tour de force of the fantastic that masterfully engages the mind, heart, and spirit.
Available since: 02/17/2015.
Print length: 200 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • Colours of Enlightenment - Right On Time - cover

    Colours of Enlightenment - Right...

    Sandeep Patel

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Colours of Enlightenment, is ten years of knowledge studied at three profound academic institutes and life analysis placed as a time-travelling story like no other to share as wisdom preserving the social network of material and spiritual sciences. Quest is Time. 
Derrick Tarasov loves math and loves to travel. He leads his brothers as a shepherd to keep all necessities of life close to him including afterlife. He despises crime, he follows the will of the just, he fulfills all quotes of worthy scholars and never tries to ridicule the ones he doesn’t understand. His friends bring him comfort, he brings them love. His faith allows him to carve peace on the wood at the base of his Saviour’s feet. He works to bind the cultures around him for the glory of his faith. He travels through time to discover the meaning of colours of light. He travels far and beyond, just to reach home, to travel through time once again.
    Show book
  • Growing Fangs - cover

    Growing Fangs

    Michael Anderle, Philippa Norcross

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Cora has found herself in a pickle. Namely, she's dying. 
 
 
 
No one can change the hand that fate deals, yet Cora is offered a choice when she reaches the limits of what medicine can do to keep her alive. 
 
 
 
Will she defy fate and agree to an attempt to transform her into a vampire? 
 
 
 
The odds of success aren't good. Not to mention that vampires have earned a nasty reputation. 
 
 
 
To prevent their history of hunting humans, torture, and mad science experiments continuing, vampires have formed a global coalition with the purpose of holding one another to strict standards of behavior and secrecy. 
 
 
 
Cora's choice is still the quickest way to becoming a magical outcast. 
 
 
 
Will her decision turn her into a dark version of herself? Or will she die?
    Show book
  • The Martians and the Coys - cover

    The Martians and the Coys

    Mack Reynolds

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    The Martians and The Coys by Mack Reynolds - Lem didn't like guarding the still while Paw and the boys went feuding. He wanted to get a shot at some Martins too! Yup, he sure did... 
Maw Coy climbed the fence down at the end of the south pasture and started up the side of the creek, carrying her bundle over her shoulder and puffing slightly at her exertion. 
She forded the creek there at the place where Hank's old coon dog Jigger was killed by the boar three years ago come next hunting season. Jumping from rock to rock across the creek made her puff even harder; Maw Coy wasn't as young as she once was. 
On the other side she rested a minute to light up her pipe and to look carefully about before heading up the draw. She didn't really expect to see any Martins around here, but you never knew. Besides, there might've been a revenue agent. They were getting mighty thick and mighty uppity these days. You'd think the government'd have more to do than bother honest folks trying to make an honest living. 
The pipe lit, Maw swung the bundle back over her shoulder and started up the draw. Paw and the boys, she reckoned were probably hungry as a passel of hound dogs by now. She'd have to hurry. 
When she entered the far side of the clearing, she couldn't see any signs of them so she yelled, "You Paw! You Hank and Zeke!" Maw Coy liked to give the men folks warning before she came up on the still. Hank, in particular, was mighty quick on the trigger sometimes. 
But there wasn't any answer. She trudged across the clearing to where the still was hidden in a cluster of pines. Nobody was there but Lem. 
She let the bundle down and glowered at him. "Lem, you no-account, why didn't you answer me when I hollered?" 
He grinned at her vacuously, not bothering to get up from where he sat whittling, his back to an old oak. "Huh?" he said. A thin trickle of brown ran down from the side of his mouth.
    Show book
  • Dragonskull: Talons of the Sorcerer - cover

    Dragonskull: Talons of the Sorcerer

    Jonathan Moeller

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    A malevolent sorcerer. A grim fortress. Those who cross its gates never return... 
Gareth Arban seeks to stop the sorceress Azalmora from finding the Dragonskull, a powerful relic of dark magic. 
But the fortress of Nifheldun lies in his path, and to pursue Azalmora, Gareth must help the warriors of the Norvangir seize the fortress. 
But the sorcerous master of Nifheldun is cunning, and Gareth and his friends might be the latest warriors to fall before his deadly spells...
    Show book
  • Dawn Patrol - Undead Ultra Prequel - cover

    Dawn Patrol - Undead Ultra Prequel

    Camille Picott

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Run from the dead . . . 
. . . or become one. 
It was just another training day for Niles. Getting ready for a one-hundred-mile footrace takes dedication. 
Twenty-five miles into his run and Niles is faced with the unthinkable. 
A campground overrun. People dead. Corpses reanimated, eating the living. 
With his skills and training, Niles could outrun the zombies. But when he stops to help two hunters, he needs to slow his pace and teach them to run. 
Can endurance running be taught on the go? Will they make it out alive? 
You’ll love this unique take on the apocalypse because the struggle is unlike anything you’ve read before. 
Get it now.
    Show book
  • A Fantastic Holiday Season - cover

    A Fantastic Holiday Season

    Kevin J. Anderson

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Festive and fanciful tales that capture the spirit of Christmas from Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Jerry Oltion, Larry Correia, and others.    What if Santa were naughty and not nice at all? In A Fantastic Holiday Season, eighteen stories—both blood-curdling and heartwarming—portray Christmas in ways you’ve never imagined. These are tales that can be shared around a fireplace on a cold winter’s night from a talented group of writers who celebrate the season in the best way they know how: by putting their own particular spin on the most wonderful time of the year.   Stories include:  “A Christmas Caroler” by Kim Antieau  “Jukebox Gifts” by Dean Wesley Smith  “Santa Claus Is Coming to Get You!” by Kevin J. Anderson  “Foreign Exchange” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman  “The Wereyam” by Kent Patterson  “Nutball Season” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch  “These Halls” by Kathy Oltion  “My Favorite Christmas” by David Farland  “One Last Gift” by Jerry Oltion   “Inquiring Minds Want to Snow” by Rebecca Moesta   “The Christmas Noun” by Larry Correia  And more!
    Show book