Well-curbed enthusiasm …

… Tolkien and Charles Williams – Snakes and Ladders. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Williams's All Hallows Eve has one of the most terrifying scenes of any book I have ever read.

In the comment below, Dave also sends along these:

Was Tolkien jealous of Charles Williams friendship with Lewis? Certainly NOT.

Tolkien and Lewis's annus divertium of 1936: a catalytic role for Charles Williams The Place of the Lion?