As Prendick learns more about Moreau, the mystery of the island only deepens.

Once more set adrift, Prendick is brought by Montgomery and his mysterious companion to their isolated island, along with their strange-looking servants.

Entering into conversation with his rescuer, Prendick's gratitude is almost outweighed by his bafflement regarding the ship, its crew and its cargo.

Adrift in the ocean and on the verge of death, Edward Prendick is rescued by a passing boat. Restricted to his cabin as he recuperates, Prendick is intrigued by his saviour, the former medical student Montgomery, and the voyage of his mysterious vessel.

Charles Williams' only published short story, in which Lord Arglay finds himself in a mysterious cottage that appears to be a portal to Hell.

Having surrendered to Eternal Wisdom, Anthony has recovered the power of Man to 'name the beasts' and thereby command the Elementals. The final chapter in Williams' novel of the transcendentals' irruption into the human world.

Anthony surrenders himself to the will of Love, and by so doing readies himself for the last perfect means by which the Forms can be tamed.

(Warning: this chapter contains some of Williams' most abstruse meditations).

Driven by her new-found understanding of love, Damaris sets out to find Quentin. He has already been found by Foster who, having given himself entirely to his worship of strength, is driven only to hunt.

With the Powers ever-strengthening in the human world, dissolution spreads throughout Smetham. Being the locus of the disruption, Mr Berringer's house is the most fragile of all.

Moving through the town, Mr Richardson finds that the Powers have fully taken hold of Mr Foster and Miss Wilmot - with appalling consequences.