My third Crowley novel, Beasts has thematic similarities to H.G. Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau, in that it explores the idea of Hybrid experiments, and the latent beasthood found in man; or conversely, the latent humanity found in beasts. It also expounds upon man's relationship with nature, and it's inescapable qualities.

While not as engaging or enchanting as Little, Big or as strange and enigmatic as The Deep, Beasts still displays the hallmarks of Crowley's masterful writing and his minimal, yet incredibly effective sense of world building.