num_pages: 223
description: The Beast is the third novel in the fantasy trilogy The Book of the Beast. It concludes the tale of the weird alien creature which inhabits the body of a young man in the rural mid-West of the 1930s.An understanding of its true nature and purpose gradually grows within the Beast's soul. A chance meeting with another of its kind gives the Beast the clue it needs to puzzle out its destiny—how to take the Great Leap from the world we know to another plane of existence altogether.Although The Beast follows on from the events in the earlier books, The Orphan and The Captive, it stands as a powerful novel in its own right and can be read and enjoyed independently of the other two books in the trilogy.
language: English
title: The Beast
titlecomplete: The Beast
genres: Science Fiction, German Literature, Fiction, Horror, Fantasy
ratings_count: 51
series: Book of the Beast Trilogy
publisher: Kinnell