I used to be the only person I knew who loathed Patricia Highsmith's work for its inhumanity to man, but our numbers are growing and will be increased by [The Animal Lover's Book of Beastly Murder], short stories about animals killing or mutilating people, with a strong flavour of being motivated less by pity for animals than by distaste for men. (p. 685)

Marghanita Laski, "Long Crimes, Short Crimes," in The Listener (© British Broadcasting Corp. 1975; reprinted by permission of Marghanita Laski), Vol. 94, No. 2433, November 20, 1975, pp. 684-85.∗