What that intelligence is remains to be discovered by the end of Animal Rites, which is fine by me. But there’s a larger story taking shape as the pets learn more and more about the paranormal and begin to figure out that the recent weirdness in their quiet, little, wooded community is being orchestrated by a single intelligence. There are no cliffhangers no To Be Continueds. In the spirit of anthology tales, each of the eight stories stands by itself. The Animal Rites collection includes those four stories as well as the four-issue Beasts of Burden mini-series. There were four volumes – Book of Hauntings, Book of Witchcraft, Book of the Dead, and Book of Monsters – and one of the highlights of each was always Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson’s story about five dogs and a stray cat who get pulled deeper and deeper into the supernatural. As you may know, Beasts of Burden began as a recurring feature in the Dark Horse Book of… anthologies.
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