The Universe
Sixty years of worlds that refuse to end.
Peter S. Beagle has spent more than sixty years building worlds that feel like memory. This is the full body of that work. Every title, every world, every character. More is coming.
The Timeline
🔗 1968 — The Last Unicorn
The novel that started it all. Never out of print. Translated into more than thirty languages. Named by TIME among the 100 Best Fantasy Books ever written. The story of a unicorn who goes searching for others of her kind — and finds something far more human along the way.
🔗 1969 — A Fine and Private Place
Peter Beagle’s debut novel. A reclusive man living in a Bronx cemetery befriends the ghosts who pass through. A meditation on death, love, and what it means to be alive.
🔗 1982 — The Last Unicorn (Film)
The beloved animated film adaptation, featuring the voices of Mia Farrow, Jeff Bridges, and Christopher Lee. A generation’s first encounter with Beagle’s world. Still in hearts everywhere.
🔗 1993 — The Innkeeper’s Song
Three women arrive at the same inn on the same night, each carrying a secret. A richly layered fantasy told in multiple voices, widely considered one of Beagle’s most ambitious works.
🔗 1999 — Tamsin
A ghost story, a love story, and a coming-of-age novel set in the English countryside. A teenage girl from New York finds herself in a world of ancient spirits, dangerous magic, and one remarkable ghost named Tamsin.
🔗 2004 — Two Hearts
Hugo and Nebula Award-winning companion story to The Last Unicorn. Returns to the world of the unicorn through the eyes of a young girl on a quest, decades after the original novel.
🔗 2024 — I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons
A New York Times Notable Book. Named by Oprah’s Book Club. A whimsical fairy tale of knights, dragons, a princess, and an ever-reluctant chosen one. Beagle at the top of his form.