“Lal and Soukyan,” 1997
“The Magician of Karakosk,” 1997
“The Tragical Historie of the Jiril’s Players,” 1997
“A Dance for Emilia,” 2000
“Mr. Sigerson,” 2004
“Quarry,” 2004
“Gordon, the Self-Made Cat,” 2005
“Two Hearts,” 2005 (Hugo & Nebula Awards)
“Chandail,” 2006
“El Regalo,” 2006
“Four Fables,” 2006
“Salt Wine,” 2006
“Barrens Dance,” 2007
“The Last and Only, or, Mr. Moscowitz Becomes French,” 2007
“Up the Down Beanstalk: A Wife Remembers,” 2007
“We Never Talk About My Brother,” 2007
“What Tune the Enchantress Plays,” 2007
“King Pelles the Sure,” 2008
“Mr. McCaslin,” 2008
“The Rabbi’s Hobby,” 2008
“The Rock in the Park,” 2008
“Spook,” 2008
“The Stickball Witch,” 2008
“The Tale of Junko and Sayuri,” 2008
“Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel,” 2008
“By Moonlight,” 2009
“The Fifth Season,” 2009
“Marty and the Messenger,” 2009
“Oakland Dragon Blues,” 2009
“Sleight of Hand,” 2009
“Vanishing,” 2009
“The Children of the Shark God,” 2010
“Dirae,” 2010
“Kaskia,” 2010
“La Lune T’attend,” 2010
“The Mantichora,” 2010
“Return,” 2010
“Trinity County, CA: You'll Want To Come Again, and We'll Be Glad To See You!,” 2010
“The Best Worst Monster,” 2011
“The Bridge Partner,” 2011
“Music, When Soft Voices Die,” 2011
“Underbridge,” 2011
“The Way It Works Out and All,” 2011
“The Woman Who Married the Man in the Moon,” 2011
“The Ape-Man of Mars, or, Tarzan and the Virginian,” 2012
“Great-Grandmother in the Cellar,” 2012
“Olfert Dapper’s Day,” 2012
“The Queen Who Could Not Walk,” 2013
NONFICTION
I See By My Outfit: Cross-Country by Scooter, an Adventure, 1965
The California Feeling, 1969
American Denim, 1975
The Lady and Her Tiger, 1976 (with Pat Derby)
The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1982
In the Presence of the Elephants, 1995
AUDIOBOOKS
The Last Unicorn, 1990 (abridged), 2005 (unabridged)
A Fine and Private Place, 2002
Giant Bones, 2002
Tamsin, 2002
Four Years, Five Seasons, 2011
PRODUCED SCREENPLAYS & TELEPLAYS
The Dove, 1974
The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened, 1977
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, 1978 (animated)
The Last Unicorn, 1982 (animated)
“Sarek,” 1990 (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
“A Whale of a Tale,” 1992 (pilot for TV series of The Little Mermaid)
THEATRE
The Fountain, 1957 (musical book & lyrics; college production)
The Last Unicorn, 1988 (dance/theater adaptation, script & incidental lyrics)
The Midnight Angel, 1993 (opera libretto, adaptation of “Come Lady Death”)
ARTICLES & ESSAYS
“Goodbye to the Bronx,” Holiday, December 1964
“The Wayward Reader,” Holiday, June 1965
“A Long Way To Go,” Holiday, February & March 1965 (abridged version of I See By My Outfit)
“My Last Heroes,” Holiday, August 1965
“Tolkien’s Magic Ring,” 1966
“On Being the Man of the House,” Saturday Evening Post, January 1967
“D. H. Lawrence in Taos,” Holiday, September 1967
“Cockfight,” Saturday Evening Post, August 1968
“The Poor People’s Campaign,” 1968 (written for the Saturday Evening Post; unpublished until 1997)
“The Jeaning of America,” Oui, September 1975
“Coyote,” Parabola, Spring 1983
“Pittsburgh Stories,” 1997
“Learning a Trade,” 1997
“The Good Vampire: Spike and Angel,” 2004
“Hanukkah in Malaga,” National Public Radio, 2005
“The Screaming,” The Raven, February 2005
“Rebekah Naomi Cox,” The Raven, May 2005
“Something To Be Learned: Teachers,” 2006
“Hugo Awards and Other Astonishments,” The Raven, January 2007
INTRODUCTIONS
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1973
In the Ocean Wind, 1974
The Loch Ness Monster Watchers, 1974
The Adventures of Yemima, by Abraham Soyer, 1979
A Mirror For Observers, by Edgar Pangborn, 1983
Adventures in Unhistory, by Avram Davidson, 1993
The Boss in the Wall, by Avram Davidson & Grania Davis, 1998
The Charwoman’s Shadow, by Lord Dunsany, 1999
The Treasury of the Fantastic, 2002
Limekiller, by Avram Davidson, 2003
POETRY
“At My Age”
“Constructive Criticism”
“Deep Woods (The Unicorn Sings to Memory)”
“Dragonsong”
“The Ferret Speaks Under William Blake’s Window”
“Grace”
“For Lisa Atkinson”
“Lilith”
“The Long Way Home”
“Margaret 1960”
“Mister Harris”
“Naps”
“North Country Ballad”
“Persephone in September”
“Rain’s Coming”
“Reflections”
“Song for James D. Houston, 1933–2009”
“Stable of Dragons”
“Survivor”
“Thais’ Lullaby”
“The Unicorn Tapestries”
“Very Plaintive Song”
“Vespa”
“What I Carry With Me”
“Wintersong”
SONGS
“Aggravating Woman”
“The Alien”
“All I Know (Two Friendly Strangers)”
“Animal Song”
“The Ballad of Christian X, King of Denmark: 1912–1947”
“The Ballad of Eleanor Roosevelt”
“The Ballad of Grandfather Selsim”
“The Ballad of Mary Read”
“Bears Bears Bears”
“Dark Water Down” (a Sirit Byar song)
“The Day They Struck Oil in Harlem “
“The Dinosaurs”
“The Door to Before”
“The Dracula Rag”
“The Egg Cream Song”
“Getting It Wrong”
“Grandmother’s Ghost” (a Sirit Byar song)
“The Great Watsonville Chicken Drop Talking Blues”
“Hello, You”
“Homecoming Song”
“I Want to be a Club Singer”
“Illahee”
“The Innkeeper’s Song”
“Irving the Goldfish”
“The Lady Made of Flowers” (a Sirit Byar song)
“The Last Song of Sirit Byar”
“Lovely Lo”
“Magicians’ Wives”
“Mantra”
“Matsev”
“Mom on the Street”
“The Perfect Beer”
“Physics Teacher Gunch”
“The Pigeon and the Dog”
“The Pirates of the D”
“Prince Lir’s Song”
“Rhythm Section”
“The Roving Garba
geman”
“The Saints Want Justice”
“Save It for the Next Life”
“She’s My Gibson J-45”
“Singing for Grandpa”
“Song for a Married Lady”
“Song for the Seattle Princess”
“Song for Victoria”
“Stay Out of My Dreams”
“Still Got Me”
“To Whom It May Concern”
“Untitled”
“Werewolf Blues”
“When I Get My Shit Together”
“Willalou’s Lullaby”
“Wolves Are Cool”
“Your Friendly Neighborhood Magician”
RECORDINGS
Phil Sigunick & Peter Beagle Acoustic: The Lost ’62 Tape, 2007
Afterword
When I was four years old, my mother—she was a schoolteacher—brought me into her classroom one day and I wound up telling her students a story about unicorns. When I was done, according to her, I very formally said to all of them “Thank you. I will come back and tell you more about unicorns someday.” I like to think that when I wrote The Last Unicorn, two decades later, I was finally keeping that promise.
—Peter S. Beagle
About the Author
Peter S. Beagle was born in 1939 and raised in the Bronx, just a few blocks from Woodlawn Cemetery, the inspiration for his first novel, A Fine and Private Place. Today, thanks to classic works such as The Last Unicorn, Tamsin, and The Innkeeper's Song, he is acknowledged as America's greatest living fantasy author; and his dazzling abilities with language, characters, and magical storytelling have earned him many millions of fans around the world.
In addition to stories and novels Peter has written numerous teleplays and screenplays, including the animated versions of The Lord of the Rings and The Last Unicorn, plus the fan-favorite “Sarek” episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. His nonfiction book I See By My Outfit, which recounts a 1963 journey across America on motor scooter, is considered a classic of American travel writing; and he is also a gifted poet, lyricist, and singer-songwriter.
For more on Peter’s career and upcoming works, go to www.peterbeagle.com or www.conlanpress.com.
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