How did Bowler get there in The Physics of the Dead? In _The Physics of the Dead_ by Luke Smitherd, when Hart is discovering the 'exit', the beast is happily dismembering Bowler. Then we see that Hart is talking to Bowler and we discover that Bowler's broken body is next to the exit. Earlier on, the beast stated that he wasn't going to prevent Hart leaving but he did have a plan to mess with him. We can assume that Bowler couldn't get to the exit on his own so that leaves Hart or the beast as his means of transport. So, did the beast take Bowler to the exit - was this his plan (which backfired big time) to mess with Hart?

Hart, after receiving his vision of the dying man's life and realising how much he owed Bowler, ran to find Bowler's (or in this case Bowler's broken form.) It was Hart carried brought Bowler to the exit so that Bowler could leave.

As for the Beast's plan, it was simply to torment Hart once Bowler was no longer around to be a support mechanism, and to always let Hart - as Hart now knew how to get out - think he was going to escape and then always prevent him doing so at the last minute, in order to screw with him in the worst way possible (The Beast says all this to Bowler.)

P.S. but put a spoiler warning in that title! ;-)