Recommend paranormal or w/ celestial entities in adult fiction

[Meta Penguin]

I'm really sorry for the crappy title; I didn't really know how to phrase it in a way that makes it succinct and comprehensible.

So, yeah, I really need recommendations regarding books with this element included in it. I'm really tempted to immerse myself in YA purely because of the abundance of angels and such, which I think is lacking in the adult fiction bookshelves.

And yes, I've read those Western cannons such as Divine Comedy and Paradise lost. I just can't find modern novels that has angels in it...

[Climacus]

Charles Williams?

[Calidore]

Somewhere, I have an anthology called Perpetual Light, which is a collection of sci-fi and fantasy stories with a religious bent. There's an angel on the cover, so probably also in some of the stories.

It's not writing, but X-Files has a pretty good episode along those lines: "All Souls" from Season Five.

[Meta Penguin]

I've watched X-files, and I might look up on that anthology.

In all sense, what I'm trying to find is urban fantasy with celestial themes embedded in it, serving as one of the story's focal point. However, I am not searching for something with a very laid-down and concrete storyline. Not an 'angel-goes-down-to-earth-and-stays-there' archetype.

Aaand when I look in the fantasy section, all the angel novels located there either have a 'sizzling hot novel of the season' or 'the new twilight' or even 'a mixture between Dan Brown'... No, simply no. I don't want to read a cheesy romance between a human and an angel or an angel incarnate, all the more for Dan's novels.



I can't bring myself to double post...

Edit 1: In a sense, I want urban metaphysical fiction (realistic urban settings mixed with more abstract ones such as Hell).

Edit 2: I found a site with a list of books pertaining this kind of themes.

http://www.scifan.com/themes/themes.asp?TH_themeid=100

Though, I still appreciate some user insight.

[Climacus]

You might like Charles Williams then. T.S. Eliot called his novels "spiritual thrillers." Lots of dark occult stuff, angels (mostly bad angels - i.e. demons), and the like. Serious stuff. Not really to my taste personally, but lots of famous writers sing his praises.

[WyattGwyon]

I highly recommend David Mitchell's Ghost Written, which follows a non-corporeal entity around the globe as it inhabits a succession of individuals, jumping from one to another. This is not the only unifying thread, however. The intricate plot also unfolds on a global scale and the possessed have other links besides the entity.

[Scheherazade]

Does American Gods by Gaiman count?

[Meta Penguin]

I read it :P

[marcolfo]

the satanic verses by salman rushdie