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Rough Magicke

Advance Praise for Rough Magicke:

"An occult thriller, scary, learned, and charitable in the true tradition of Charles Williams and his fellow Inklings."--T. A. Shippey, J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (Houghton Mifflin, 2001) and The Road to Middle-Earth (Houghton Mifflin, 2003); editor, The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories (1994)

"Rough Magicke is a compelling work of fantasy. John William Houghton has created a memorable character in Coke-swilling Annandale Military Academy Chaplain Jonathan Mears. Houghton knows his stuff, bringing the reader inside academic and religious traditions wonderful and strange. Intellectual and literary, Rough Magicke juxtaposes the arcane and the sacred while providing a glimpse of the divine. It's Dead Poets Society with a dash of Harry Potter and The Name of the Rose. Rough Magicke is worth checking out if you have the tiniest Shakespearean bone in your body."--Mike Brotherton, Star Dragon (Tor Books, 2003) and Spider Star (coming in 2006)

"Rough Magicke is Goodbye, Mr. Chips meets The Father Brown Mysteries, with the welcome and in fact sorely needed addition of witchcraft, telepathy, quicksand and magic rings."--Mark O'Donnell, Getting Over Homer (Knopf, 1996) and Broadway's Hairspray