Publisher's Synopsis
When a professor of poetry and his friends rescue a black man from a lynch mob, they learn he is an African king with a dangerous secret. He knows the identity of a deathless magician, who has attained power by preaching an occult gospel of earthly immortality and is now devising an invasion of England.
Full of haunting ambiguities and shocking turns of character and plot, Shadows of Ecstasy is among the strangest, most entrancing novels of Charles Williams, whom Time Magazine called,
