The Complete Library of Peter S. Beagle

The Last Unicorn Universe

The Last Unicorn — The novel that began it all: a unicorn who believes she may be the last of her kind sets out to find the others, and discovers what it means to be human, mortal, and irreplaceable.

The Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey — The original, never-before-published first draft of The Last Unicorn, offering an intimate look into the birth of a legend.

The Unicorn Sonata — A young musician crosses into a world of music and magic where unicorns still exist — and learns what it costs to bring wonder back.

The Unicorn Anthology — Edited by Peter S. Beagle, a landmark collection of unicorn stories from some of the finest writers in fantasy.

Peter S. Beagle’s Immortal Unicorn — A two-volume anthology of original unicorn stories, co-edited by Beagle, that expanded the mythology far beyond the original.

The Innkeeper’s World

The Innkeeper’s Song — Three women of extraordinary power converge at a country inn, and a young stable boy is drawn into a story older and stranger than the world he thought he knew.

Giant Bones — Six novellas set in the world of The Innkeeper’s Song, each revealing a different corner of that world’s history and darkness.

The Karkadann Triangle — A novella of intrigue and ancient power set in the Innkeeper’s world, where even the mythical can be bargained away.

Return: An Innkeeper’s World Story — A return to beloved characters and landscapes, written decades after the original novel, as vivid and alive as ever.

The Folk of the Air

The Folk of the Air — A man returns to his college town and finds himself drawn into a medieval reenactment society where the magic, jealousy, and transformation are entirely real.

Novels

A Fine and Private Place — A reclusive man who has lived for years in a cemetery tends to the newly dead and finds himself caught in a love story that crosses the line between life and whatever comes after.

Tamsin — An American teenager uprooted to rural England discovers a centuries-old ghost and the story behind her haunting — a story of love, betrayal, and the long patience of the dead.

Summerlong — A middle-aged couple in the Pacific Northwest take in a mysterious young woman, and their ordinary life begins to unravel in ways that are beautiful, painful, and entirely unexpected.

In Calabria — A solitary farmer in southern Italy discovers a unicorn sheltering on his land, and must choose between protecting something miraculous and keeping it hidden from the world.

I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons — A reluctant dragon exterminator in a kingdom where dragons are pests discovers that some problems cannot be exterminated, only understood.

Short Fiction

The Line Between — A collection of stories that move between the real and the impossible with the ease of someone who has always lived at that border.

Sleight of Hand — Stories of magic, grief, longing, and the particular grace of ordinary people encountering extraordinary things.

We Never Talk About My Brother — A collection of short fiction spanning Beagle’s career, including some of the most beloved stories he has ever written.

The Overneath — Stories of the liminal, the lost, and the quietly miraculous — Peter S. Beagle at the full height of his powers.

Mirror Kingdoms: The Best of Peter S. Beagle — A career-spanning anthology of Beagle’s essential shorter work, introduced by the author.

Nonfiction & Memoir

I See By My Outfit — A young Peter Beagle’s account of crossing America by motor scooter, written with the clarity and wonder of someone noticing the world for the first time.

The California Feeling — A meditation on California’s particular quality of light, memory, and myth, with photographs by Michael Bry.

In the Presence of Elephants — A celebration of elephants and the humans who love them, written with characteristic warmth and attention.

More is coming. The universe is expanding.