Instruct: Classify a review as either positive or negative.
Query: Lovecraft meets Chesterton.

I really enjoyed this novel, but I can't imagine recommending it to anyone, because the author's perspective is very hard to ascertain. The prose is cleaner and easier to read than "All Hallows Eve", and the atmosphere is definitely less ethereal. the story is such a strange mix of Victorian and modern ideas; imagine if H.P. Lovecraft and G.K Chesterton wrote a Father Brown mystery, and then made the mystery a subplot. Again in this work, as with the previously mentioned "All Hallows Eve", Williams does an excellent job bringing his characters to life.I must admit I began reading Williams because of his association with the Inklings and C.S. Lewis in particular, but I am quickly becoming a fan.