Works by
Peter S. Beagle
(Writer)
[1939 - ]

Amazon Shorts

•  Gordon the Self-Made Cat (An Amazon Short
  "The first draft of "Gordon, The Self-Made Cat" was written more than forty years ago, when I was living on nine wild acres in the hills north of Santa Cruz, California, with my young family. We had an unguessable number of cats in those days, if you count not only the indoor and outdoor residents, but also the visitors who treated our peeling red shack as a sort of bed-and-breakfast establishment. I made up the valiant Gordon to amuse the children, then buried the piece in my battered filing cabinet and forgot about it for decades. In 2001 I stumbled across it during a move and decided to rework it into this version.)" -- Peter S. Beagle

• Something To Be Learned
  "I love writing nonfiction, and early in my career appeared regularly in many of the public mainstays in the field, including such magazines as Holiday and the Saturday Evening Post. When a small press in San Francisco asked me to put together a collection of new pieces exploring the writers, artists, and events that shaped me as a writer — an eclectic mix including T. H. White, Tolkien, James Stephens, Pogo, and the French chansonnier Georges Brassens — I knew I had to start the book by writing about my actual teachers (both in the classroom and out)." -- Peter S. Beagle

As editor

• Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn (1995) with Janet Berliner and Martin H Greenberg
  Beagle has reunited with the fabulous mythical creature in this massive original anthology featuring 30 bestselling writers.

• Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn Volume Two (1995) with Janet Berliner

Fiction

Collections

• Giant Bones (1996)
  Six breathtaking tales set in the bestselling world of The Innkeeper's Song

• The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances (1997)

• "The Magician of Karakosk" and Other Stories (1999)

• The Line Between (2006)
  The long-awaited sequel to the popular classic The Last Unicorn is the centerpiece of this powerful collection of new tales from a fantasy master. As longtime fans have come to expect, the stories are written with a grace and style similar to fantasy's most original voices, such as J. R. R. Tolkien, Fritz Leiber, and Kurt Vonnegut. Traditional themes are typically infused with modern sensibilities—reincarnated lovers and waning kings rub shoulders with heroic waifs; Schmendrick the Magician returns to adventure, as does the ghost of an off-Broadway actor and a dream-stealing shapeshifter; and Gordon, the delightfully charming "self-made cat," appears for the first time in print, taking his place alongside Stuart Little as a new favorite of the young at heart. This wide-ranging compilation contains sly humor and a resounding depth that will charm fans of literary fantasy.

Novels

• A Fine and Private Place (1960)
  Michael Morgan was not ready to die, but his funeral was carried out just the same. Trapped in the dark limbo between life and death as a ghost, he searches for an escape. Instead, he discovers the beautiful Laura...and a love stronger than the boundaries of the grave and the spirit world.

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• The Last Unicorn (1968)
  In 1962, the 23 year-old Beagle was at a career crossroads. His fantasy novel A Fine and Private Place had been released to great critical acclaim in 1960, but his mainstream second book had been flatly rejected by his publisher. What Peter wrote next was an 80-page fragment about a unicorn, the last of her kind, lost in the modern world of superhighways and Kodak cameras, with only a banished demon from Hell for a traveling companion. This first take on the beloved classic -- so much the same, so very different -- is now available to readers for the first time, with an introduction and commentary by the author.
  Movie (1982), Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, directors, with Alan Arkin and Jeff Bridges   DVD  VHS

• Lila, Tthe Werewolf (1974)

• The Folk of the Air (1986)

• The Innkeeper's Song (1993)

• Tamsin (1999)

• A Dance for Emilia (2000)
  Even lifelong friendships can't outlast death...or can they?
  
  Award-winning author Peter S. Beagle presents a deeply personal story of dreams abandoned and recovered, friends loved and lost, and the strength it takes to let go....

• I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons (2007 release)
  Dragons are common in the back water kingdom of bellemontagne, coming in sizes from mouse-like vermin all the way up to castle-smashing monsters. gaius Aurelius Constantine Heliogabalus thrax (who would much rather people just call him robert) has recently inherited his deceased dad’s job as a dragon catcher/exterminator, a career he detests with all his heart — in part because he likes dragons, feeling an odd kinship with them, but mainly because his dream has always been the impossible one of transcending his humble origin to someday become a prince’s valet. Needless to say, fate has something rather different in mind . . .

• The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version (2007)
  Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn has sold at least six million copies around the world since it was published in 1968, and tens of millions of viewers have delighted in the animated film version (for which Peter also wrote the screenplay). But none of the fans of this amazing work have ever known the full story of how The Last Unicorn came to be. In 1962, the 23 year-old Beagle was at a career crossroads. His fantasy novel A Fine and Private Place had been released to great critical acclaim in 1960, but his mainstream second book had been flatly rejected by his publisher. What Peter wrote next was an 80-page fragment about a unicorn, the last of her kind, lost in the modern world of superhighways and Kodak cameras, with only a banished demon from Hell for a traveling companion. This first take on the beloved classic -- so much the same, so very different -- is now available to readers for the first time, with an introduction and commentary by the author.

Omnibus

• The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle (1978)
  Includes A Fine and Private Place, The Last Unicorn, "Come Lady Death," and "Lila the Werewolf"

Young Adult

• The Unicorn Sonata (1996) with Robert Rodriguez, Illustrator
  In Los Angeles a thirteen-year-old girl follows haunting music across an invisible border into an enchanted land known as Shei§rah that is inhabited by satyrs, unicorns, and phoenixes.

Non-fiction

• American Denim: A New Folk Art (1975)

• The Lady and Her Tiger (1976) with Pat Derby

• Garden of Earthly Delights (1982)

• In the Presence of Elephants (1995), Written with Pat Derby, photography by Genaro Molina