Engaging, Delightful. Unexpected. In language reminiscent of Douglas Adams's, more lyrical than Christopher Moore's, Mr. Lockwood weaves a tale of creatures strange and stranger, and strangers bold and mysterious in a land unfamiliar and rooted in the dreams of a fevered mind. We follow unsuspectingly as he leads us by smell and misdirection through rough terrain and narrow passages  into the maze of the Beast's domain. Original yet somehow older than time.